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- Race in America: Race and the criminal justice system"
- "In 1996, six in 10 jail inmates were racial or ethnic minorities -- 41 percent were African American, 18 percent were Hispanic and 3 percent Asian or Alaska Native, according to the Department of Justice. The Sentencing Project, a Washington-based think tank, reported in 1995 that 32.2 percent of all African Americans men between the age of 20 and 29 are under criminal justice supervision on any given day -- in prison or jail, on probation or parole. Even more unsettling, nationally blacks are incarcerated at a rate of 7.66 times greater than whites, according to TSP."
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- Race riots: where did they go?
- "Scholars and heirs search for documentation of the destruction of black communities decades ago.[...] With a mix of revulsion and urgency, people in communities from
Florida to Oklahoma, Missouri to Texas, are also beginning to study their
bloody pasts. The outlines often are similar: an individual lynching
turned into a full-fledged pogrom. In some riot-wracked towns, such as Harrison, Ark., black populations vanished so completely--having fled or
been murdered--that scholars liken the results to ethnic cleansing."
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- STAT 110 Fundamentals of Statistics: Death Penalty and Race
- It seems to be a course assignment.
- "Even though the majority of people executed under the death penalty are white, this comparative histogram compares actual execution rates with the distribution of races in America. This graph illustrates that blacks are executed out of proportion to their presence in America."
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- You can't judge a crook by his color
- From the Utne Reader. The courts are saying that racial profiling is pretty much A-OK with them.
- This is pretty much one of the reasons why I say that the justice system pretty much an oxymoron. Consider: (1) the courts say on the one hand that racial profiling is OK with them as long as it's reasonable; (2) the courts say on the other hand that "mere reasonableness is an insufficient justification for officials to discriminate on racial grounds." Now, imagine that you're trying to craft a policy for your police officers to follow, as to when and where any sort of racial profiling can be used. What sort of guidance does this give you?
- The major difficulty with racial profiling is that it forces us to prove our innocence based on nothing more than our skin color, when the official position of the system is that IT is forced to prove your guilt.
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