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So how would equal enforcement work? Should officers deliberately overlooked speeding or parking enforcement because their app tells them they've reached the mo
by JudgeWapner 7y ago
So how would equal enforcement work? Should officers deliberately overlooked speeding or parking enforcement because their app tells them they've reached the monthly limit for the number of minorities cited for those infractions? How is that possibly fair to those minorities who live in those communities? "Whelp, everyone's double parked in front of the fire hydrant again till the first of the month. Sucks I can't use the street for another week"
- drusepth 7y agoI don't think I understand the question. Equal enforcement would just be prosecuting everyone regardless of whether they're a minority or not, no?
- JudgeWapner 7y agowho's to say they aren't currently doing that? That's what I'm wondering. Are there metrics for this or not? If there are, then the ridiculous scenario I contrived above is one solution. If there aren't metrics, then why is anyone assuming the worst?
- 40acres 7y agoThis is a straw man and you know it. The line between police harassment and brutality is very thin. All marginalized communities are asking for is equal treatment under the law.
- JudgeWapner 7y agoeveryone wants "equal treatment" until it's their car getting ticketed. then suddenly it's harassment because the offender is "marginalized".
- 40acres 7y agoI consider this a bad faith argument so I’ll just leave you with this. Just yesterday the Supreme Court ruled against a prosecutor who repeatedly ruled out black people from jury selection, it was found this prosecutor on average asked white jurors 11 questions and black jurors ~25, this is just one of the many examples of unequal treatment under the law that criminal justice reformers are advocating against. It sounds like you need to do some reading, so I’ll recommend The Color of Law.
- JudgeWapner 7y agothe bad faith arguments are the ones that claim that minorities should get free passes to break the law. And the straw-man arguments are the ones that cite single examples of officer/judicial misconduct and ascribe that to the hundreds of thousands of men and women in criminal justice. What if someone cited a handful of examples of minorities acting badly as representative of the entire population? Tell me about the faith of that argument. > It sounds like you need to do some reading you are no in no position to recommend me reading when you evade the most basic questions about the central premise of your argument.