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There's also this false narrative - the police search TONS of people without finding drugs or anything actionable. They happen to also search people who have dr
by pfooti 10y ago
There's also this false narrative - the police search TONS of people without finding drugs or anything actionable. They happen to also search people who have drugs. But the only people who go in front of judges are (for the most part) criminals. So judges (and the press) only see the actual positives, not the 19 false positives for each actual positive.
0: http://newjimcrow.com/ http://newjimcrow.com/ (sourced from the book, chapter ... I think 3?)
- lisper 10y agoYes. And it's even worse than that: prosecutorial misconduct leads to a lot of innocent people pleading guilty to crimes they did not actually commit in order to avoid the risk of being unjustly convicted of a more serious crime that they also did not commit. But in the eyes of the system, again, justice has been done because the person is, by their own (coerced) admission, guilty.
- lostlogin 10y agoIt's a lot worse than just that. Of the 20 stopped and searched, 17 will be black or Hispanic. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/opinion/racial-discrimination-in-stop-and-frisk.html http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/opinion/racial-discrimi...