Those studies are garbage. They don't look at things like: prior record, mitigating and aggravating factors the judge takes into account when sentencing, different state laws with sentencing guidelines... I could go on and on; there's simply too many variables to get a large enough sample size to do a real study to find out if there is racial bias in the criminal justice system.
Same with police making arrests. They like to claim that "Whites commit just as much crime as Blacks, but Blacks just get unfairly targeted more." However, when you look at the National Criminal Victimization Survey (NCVS), which simply asks random people if they have ever been a victim of a crime, and if so, what the crime was, and what the race of the perpetrator was. And it actually shows that police aren't arresting ENOUGH blacks in comparison to the amount of crimes they commit!!! It's just rdculous when viewing the disproportionate amount of crime between White and Black communities.
However, there IS a HUGE problem with the industrial prison complex n general, RACE NOTWITHSTANDING - there is no huge issue wth racial biasl
The war on drugs is also a huge problem that ruins millions of lives and families.
But this racial rubbish has got to stop... So we can focus on the real problems.
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