MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 10:19 am
cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Sat Jun 05, 2021 3:57 pm
Indeed, there's a big part of America who actually see police violence, and over incarceration, against minorities as necessary,
A huge load of hogwash coming from between the pipes. What the heck is over incarceration?? Does that mean too many guilty people are put behind bars. I think I spent 20 minutes laughing and shaking my head at the brain numbing logic being used here. Does anybody on this forum pay any attention to the daily violence being used AGAINST the police?
cradle, you'll be back soon on the regular threads and you'll undoubtedly have lots of opportunities to disparage my views, but I happened to see this post and thought, well why not respond?
Yeah, over incarceration of minorities is when you put minority "criminals" behind bars for offenses of equivalent severity, disproportionately per infraction relative to whites. Same crime, different time, different likelihood of prosecution.
And then you have discriminatory sentencing for certain types of drug offenses relative to others, heavy sentences for possession of crack cocaine, light sentences for coke...different set of "criminals", thus different sentencing restrictions.
And, of course, the whole criminalization of some substances, no crime for others...
and, the reality that populations with less wealth (of all races) are most likely to turn to crime. And this particular issue exacerbated by redlining and other practices ghettoizing by ethnicity.
But hey, call it "hogwash" or "mind numbing" if you want...OR bother to actually ask what is meant with an open mind...
Want to change the subject to violence against police? It's a very, very serious issue. Absolutely.
What's your prescription? More incarceration?
We already have the highest incarceration rate of any first world country...
My prescription is decriminalization of drug use. All drug use.