"Racial disparities in the criminal justice system are no accident, but rather are rooted in a history of oppression and discriminatory decision making"
"Racial disparities in the criminal justice system are no accident, but rather are rooted in a history of oppression and discriminatory decision making"
- Why do inequality and deprivation produce high crime and low trust?
- How the United States Punishes People for Being Poor
- How Poverty Drives Violent Crime
- Poverty, Racism, and the Public Health Crisis in America
- An Unjust Burden: The Disparate Treatment of Black Americans in the Criminal Justice System
- Homelessness and Black History: Poverty and Income
Some demographics are definitely more criminal, such as: the ultra-wealthy. ESPECIALLY them. Despite making up less than 14% of the planet's population, they are responsible for over 50% of all pollution!
Wage theft, and financial crimes, too
Get convicted or arrested for crimes more*************
Its impossible to measure crimes committed.
It's the reason slavery was enshrined in the 13th amendment.
Yep! Can't be a slave anymore, unless you broke the law. Then fuck you.
That was only step 1. Step 2 was to pass laws targeting the minority you wanted to keep as an underclass, so that if they refused to sign a labor contract to work for their former owner for slave wages, they could be arrested for "vagrancy" and leased right back to them anyway as convict labor.
In other words, they didn't just enslave criminals; they manufactured criminals to enslave.
no give ball. only throwno inspect causes. only effects
Some groups do more crimes? Oh you mean straight men? What do you mean that's not the same thing?
A higher criminal statistics lead to more policing
More policing lead to more detected crimes that show up in statisticsIt's all engineered
Fun fact: one of the ways government agencies cut costs is mandatory purchasing contracts with companies that use prison labor.