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why is this in race?
the law is neutral as to race. just because blacks used a drug more does not make the law racist. the law worked as i posted above. if obama is successful in getting the sentences reduced, i only hope we don't go back to the 1980's homicide levels as i posted above.
I'll bet MLK would be proud:Probably because of the racial implications of the 100 to 1 policy on crack vs. powdered cocaine. Because blacks tended to use crack and whites powdered, blacks were getting far longer prison sentences for the same amount of cocaine.why is this in race?
Good! There is no justification for the current sentencing structure that treats one tgram of crack equivalent to 100 grams of cocaine. Long overdue.
the law is neutral as to race. just because blacks used a drug more does not make the law racist. the law worked as i posted above. if obama is successful in getting the sentences reduced, i only hope we don't go back to the 1980's homicide levels as i posted above.
Otherwise nuetral rules and laws can have a discriminatory effect if they focus on attributes associate with one race.
Black people are more prone to dog fighting than white people, maybe we should reduce the sentences for that too. Definitely make sure to reduce the prison terms for drive by shootings as well, because black people commit that crime far more than the other races.
Yurt, do you remember the cocaine wars of the 80's in Miami? I lived there then and it was just as bad if not worse than the crack violence.
Yurt, do you remember the cocaine wars of the 80's in Miami? I lived there then and it was just as bad if not worse than the crack violence.
i lived in SD and part time in LA, crack was a serious problem. also, i spent time with family who lived in NY and it was a serious problem.
perhaps cocaine was a more serious problem there because that is where most of the coke which gets dumped into crack comes from...and from there, crack, cheaper and more dangerous, spread to the rest of america....
i have posted a link, twice, in this thread that has apparent experts, including clintons AG janet reno, who said that higher prison terms etc....decreased homicide rates....
what say you? posters such as iriemon ignore the facts or the facts presented, if you have something to counter that, i would be interested to read it.