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This gets into a much larger issue of policing intersectioning with darker skinned peoples in the US. When many of the dads are arrested in jail or prison, obv
by crankylinuxuser 7y ago
This gets into a much larger issue of policing intersectioning with darker skinned peoples in the US.
When many of the dads are arrested in jail or prison, obviously they aren't being mentors. And they aren't permitted to be in their childrens' lives. And much of this is overpolicing and overcriminialization. Add this to sentences being worse, and it's unsurprising it happens. We as a nation are setting the situation, then surprised it happened.
And the cycle repeats.
- abcpassword 7y agoCrazy thought. Maybe stop committing crime and you won’t go to prison.
- lopmotr 7y agoOr underpolicing. Blacks are at much higher risk of being the victim of violent crime than whites. Even the boy in the article's brother was murdered. Lack of security means people take it into their own hands and you get violent gangs and/or a harmful honor based society.
- jmull 7y agoI'm pretty sure the previous poster is mainly referring to the criminalization of low-level drug use and the heavily racially biased enforcement of it. You're talking about the heavily racially biased under-enforcement/implementation of laws and programs to reduce violent crime. Just highlighting that a racial bias in the criminal justice system is the common theme. Not that you weren't making the same point, it just didn't seem clear to me one way or the other. Here are some nice stats if anyone wants some numbers to chew on: https://www.naacp.org/criminal-justice-fact-sheet/ https://www.naacp.org/criminal-justice-fact-sheet/