I know. The funny thing is that it seems like people just think all cops are white racists. Ignorance is such a driving force behind all this. I can say that I haven’t seen anything to convince me that the system is unfair here. Almost all of my successful cases in which I’ve made arrests or issued warrants have been white people.
Until people stop creating a racial qualifier for their group, we’re going to have division.
@biker
From my experience, white people commit more property crimes and black people commit more violent crimes. In addition to that, the bulk of violent crimes committed by black people are done by the young ones. These kids are committing drive-bys with AKs and they’re like 16. The ones who manage to survive and avoid jail tend to calm down as they get older.
Alternatively, the white people continue to steal for life.
The disparity in prison is the disparity in the Justice system. It doesn’t care about property crimes. They are not a priority (and it’s incredibly frustrating). If you look at a crime and its class - misdemeanor or felony and what level - then you’ll see that the sentencing guidelines are different.
A first time burglary conviction gets you 15-17 months of presumptive probation (level 7 non-person felony with no priors).
A first time aggravated assault with a firearm conviction (level 7 person felony with no priors) gets you 22-26 months of presumptive probation.
Change that agg assault to agg robbery and it’s a level 5 person felony that earns you 50-55 months of presumptive jail time.
It’s fairly common for juveniles to lure pizza delivery drivers to a vacant house and rob them of the food and their cell phone. Some of our places won’t deliver to certain areas (I bet grub hub and door dash have solved that).
From what I have personally seen, the demographics for certain crimes are different. The sentencing guidelines for those crimes are different. Simple math explains the “disparity” in prison populations.