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Topic	Should BLM change their name?
wolfy42 06/08/20 2:19:33 AM #39:	Zeus posted... wolfy42 posted... Are white, latino,Asian etc people being abused/arrested etc as well? Sure. You complain about disproportionate arrests, but Asians are underrepresented in prisons despite also being a minority. What's your explanation there? And what's your solution, to put more Asians in prison on principle? Asians make up 5.9% of the US's population yet only 1.5% of the prison population. That's massive difference. Asian's are not targeted, at least not nearly as much as hispanics and african americans. The numbers for asians are pretty close over all to the numbers for white americans as far as pop total to prison pop. The numbers for African americans, Latino's and Native americans are waaay larger though. Are you suggesting that those races are just more prone to commiting crimes? We know that is not true, many times white americans commit the same exact crime and get away scot free, and that isn't even taking into account the income/money etc to pay for lawyers that can get you off most charged (first few years we actually worked in criminal law and the diff between a public defender, and us, was HUGE....but we cost alot of money (And we didn't even charge a ton compared to most attorneys...we (at that time) didn't have an office etc, and my wife had been a public defender until recently (death penalty defense in Riverside County in fact). Just being able to afford a private attorney even a cheap one can be the difference between probation and a few years in jail. Meanwhile you have TONS of minorities in jail for minor drug charges (multiple possession charges etc). Even without racist cops it's an unfair system, and I don't think many people are denying at this point that some cops are racist. So yes, I do expect a fairly even percentage of incarcerations based on population percentage and incarceration percentage. African Americans make up only 13% of our population but 40% (the largest of any race) of our prison population. It blows away everyone else and is a larger percentage than white people by a few percent even though there are more than 5x as many white people in this country. There is no way that is fair, there is no way that is right, and it's disgusting that it has been allowed to go on for so long. --- Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at." Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing." <cite>wolfy42 posted [p:940342953] in Should BLM... [t:78751785]...</cite> <quote>Zeus posted... </cite> <quote>wolfy42 posted... Are white, latino,Asian etc people being abused/arrested etc as well? Sure. You complain about disproportionate arrests, but Asians are underrepresented in prisons despite also being a minority. What's your explanation there? And what's your solution, to put more Asians in prison on principle? Asians make up 5.9% of the US's population yet only 1.5% of the prison population. That's massive difference.</quote> Asian's are not targeted, at least not nearly as much as hispanics and african americans. The numbers for asians are pretty close over all to the numbers for white americans as far as pop total to prison pop. The numbers for African americans, Latino's and Native americans are waaay larger though. Are you suggesting that those races are just more prone to commiting crimes? We know that is not true, many times white americans commit the same exact crime and get away scot free, and that isn't even taking into account the income/money etc to pay for lawyers that can get you off most charged (first few years we actually worked in criminal law and the diff between a public defender, and us, was HUGE....but we cost alot of money (And we didn't even charge a ton compared to most attorneys...we (at that time) didn't have an office etc, and my wife had been a public defender until recently (death penalty defense in Riverside County in fact). Just being able to afford a private attorney even a cheap one can be the difference between probation and a few years in jail. Meanwhile you have TONS of minorities in jail for minor drug charges (multiple possession charges etc). Even without racist cops it's an unfair system, and I don't think many people are denying at this point that some cops are racist. So yes, I do expect a fairly even percentage of incarcerations based on population percentage and incarceration percentage. African Americans make up only 13% of our population but 40% (the largest of any race) of our prison population. It blows away everyone else and is a larger percentage than white people by a few percent even though there are more than 5x as many white people in this country. There is no way that is fair, there is no way that is right, and it's disgusting that it has been allowed to go on for so long. --- Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at." Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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