To be fair, black men are disproportionately prosecuted and given higher sentences.
Granted, this is likely due to a bias created by a disproportionately high segment of the black male population being complete sociopaths, but it is a racial bias.
I have to disagree. I think it's obvious that the reason blacks have the most interaction with law enforcement is because they're the ones most frequently breaking the law. How many more videos of blacks just randomly breaking out in violent outbursts do we need to see before we admit that blacks are far more prone to violence than apparently any other race? They commit a crime, and then when confronted by LE resist arrest, running away, fighting, even shooting police. It's as if they believe they should be able to have violent outburst and commit crimes and not have to answer for any of it, and in some of these big leftist shit hole cities, that's exactly what happens. They quit prosecuting low level theft and misdemeanors. Well, that has just invited more crime. Give a criminal an inch and they'll take a mile.
Blacks aren't being targeted or treated any differently than anyone else. They're simply the most criminal and violent people.
I don't disagree. I was just saying that there's a disproportionate amount of punishment handed down. That's the bias.
Where a white female might be sentenced to probation only, a thuggish-looking black male may get one year for the same offense.
The behavior of other thuggish-looking black males created that bias.
I am neither saying it is right, nor am I saying it is anyone else's fault but that of other black males.
EDIT: and before one of our resident black males jumps in here to yell at me for being racist, white males also suffer from a similar bias. I'm more likely to be suspected of being a serial killer than any other racial/gender group.
If the white female gets probation, and the black male gets a year or two in jail, it's likely not a gender or race issue. If the white female is a first time offender, shows remorse in the court room, apologizes to the court for her actions, then it doesn't make sense for a judge to toss her in prison and chancing he will make a career criminal out of her. The black thug looking male likely has a criminal history, and didn't seem to learn his lesson the first few times. That's why he gets sent to prison.
Exactly!!!
I've been to court a few times over the years and you see it every time.
Blacks acting like it's the courts fault that they're in court and it shows in their attitude.
A few simple rules that should be followed.
Act contrite,wear a suit and tie,answer the Judge with Yes or No your honor,have a damn job,owning your own home and having a family also plays a part.
In other words the Judge is far less likely to put the hammer down on a respectable member of society.
This subject comes up quite often, so I thought I would confide a lifelong friend, who happens to work in the court system.
While he would never say there was definitely a bias against blacks, his personal opinion is that he has seen it before. But guess what? The harsher sentences to black defendants were given by black judges.
His opinion made a lot of sense. If you are a black judge and sentencing a troublemaker in the black community, you would probably want to send him away for a long time to rid the black society of a problem. After all, the judge likely has family or friends in that community, or even lives there himself.
On the other hand, if you were a white judge that has a thing against blacks, the best way to see their communities further deteriorate is to put the black criminals back into their societies. Why not? You don't live there and don't know anybody that does. Your attitude would probably be "let them all kill each other for all I care!"