https://townhall.com/columnists/marinamedvin/2018/08/16/thousands-sign-petition-asking-to-free-innocent-cop-wrongfully-convicted-by-leftist-politics-n2510290
Assuming things are as Townhall puts them, I would have no hesitation about signing such a petition.
I just wish that Townhall (and you) were as eager to fight for the freedom of every wrongfully convicted person.
Are you prepared to come to grips with the fact that blacks in America are mistreated by our judicial system at every level of it, as surely as the vast bulk of claims against police are false?
I dont like drugs.
I dont think "Say No to Drugs" is tough to understand.
Thus I dont support lower penalties for dopers and pushers.
I do support giving everyone arrested better and quicker representation than they seem to be getting.
Case by case basis - I would be happy to comment
None of which I am discussing..
And you know it.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/janfeb-2014/driving-while-black/But in investigatory stops, a black man age twenty-five or younger has a 28 percent chance of being stopped for an investigatory reason over the course of a year; a similar young white man has a 12.5 percent chance, and a similar young white woman has only a 7 percent chance. And this is after taking into account other possible influences on being stopped, like how you drive. Police focus investigatory stops on younger people, and so as people grow older they are less likely to be stopped in this way. But a black man must reach fifty—well into the graying years—before his risk of an investigatory stop drops below that of a white man under age twenty-five. Overall, black drivers are nearly three times more likely than whites to be subjected to investigatory stops.
This is one example. Do you need more?
Drug arrests, brought to trial, convictions, and sentencing are all worse for blacks than whites for equivalent backgrounds and crimes.
"Once stopped, during traffic stops, 3 times as many Black and Hispanic drivers were searched as white drivers, according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics."
Police are more likely to use force like Tasers, dogs, pepper spray and physical force against Black people than White people in making arrests.
While marijuana use is similar in black and white communities, blacks are 3.73 times as likely to be arrested for possession of marijuana as whites.
The National Academy of Sciences found that blacks are more likely than whites to be incarcerated while awaiting trial.
Federal prosecutors are almost twice as likely to file charges carrying mandatory minimum sentences for African Americans than whites accused of the same crimes, according to a study published by the University of Michigan Law School.
The National Academy of Sciences stated that blacks are more likely than whites to received prison terms rather than community service. Black people are imprisoned at twice the rate of white people in the U.S., according to the US Department of Justice.
The National Academy of Sciences stated that, after conviction, blacks more often receive longer sentences than whites.
African American men were sentenced to 19 percent longer time periods in federal courts across the U.S. than white men convicted of similar crimes in a 4-year study conducted by the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
Over 65 percent of prisoners serving life without parole for nonviolent offenses are black.
Have any more mealy-mouthed non-responses?
Or are you prepared to come to grips with the fact that our criminal justice system is racist?
Not "on a case by case basis," but on a systemic basis.
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