He broke the law...nuff said....really? 1. While people of color make up about 30 percent of the United States’ population, they account for 60 percent of those imprisoned. The prison population grew by 700 percent from 1970 to 2005, a rate that is outpacing crime and population rates. The incarceration rates disproportionately impact men of color: 1 in every 15 African American men and 1 in every 36 Hispanic men are incarcerated in comparison to 1 in every 106 white men. 2. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, one in three black men can expect to go to prison in their lifetime. How many times do you read a story of a black kid getting 15 years for a bag of pot...and on the front page of that newspaper, HSBC bank launders 800 million in drug cartel money and not one single person goes to jail. Which of those two acts created more for the drug problem? This week a black kids got 35 years for shooting an unarmed police dog.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 22:22:07 +0000
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