Police violence towards people of color and many aspects of the justice system (sentencing, etc) are examples of current day systemic racism.
I know you are smart and capable enough to find sources / evidence about those things as it’s been a huge topic of conversation across the nation for the past few months.
Any reputable newspaper. Any reputable university. The Federal Government itself.
Or simply using your eyes and ears and heart and Occam’s razor.
So, if you don’t want to see, acknowledge, or believe it, that’s on you.
I’m not going to play the game where it’s my job to convince the skeptic that the sky is blue when they say “oh but it’s night right now and it sure doesn’t look blue to me.”
If you want to share a link to a reputable source mentioned by Larry Elder I’ll take a quick look but I’m not watching a video.
Also the idea that “the horrible systemic racism in the past” is all gone now, when “the past“ was only 70 years ago (1960), is silly, when you consider how entrenched racism is in America here since day one.
Police violence towards people of color and many aspects of the justice system (sentencing, etc) are examples of current day systemic racism.
No that is not an example of systemic racism. If you look up the data separated by race, you’ll see that it’s also factually not true. It doesn’t matter how many times BLM or other politically or profit motivated entities shout their slogan, that doesn’t make it true.
It’s weird to me that you refuse to watch the video. I’m not able to identify with people who reject new information that may disrupt their worldview. I watch/listen to people I disagree with all the time. I have learned a lot from them.
I’m pointing out that the sky is blue. You are the one ignoring facts. And nobody is arguing that racism doesn’t exist. That isn’t the same thing.
"The June 4 exchange was contained in a mass of city documents released on Monday that show how the police chief, La’Ron Singletary, and other prominent Rochester officials did everything in their power to keep the troubling videos of the incident out of public view, and to prevent damaging fallout from Mr. Prude’s death.
The dozens of emails, police reports and internal reviews reveal an array of delay tactics — from citing hospital privacy laws to blaming an overworked employee’s backlog in processing videos — used in that mission.
The documents show how the police attempted to frame the narrative in the earliest hours, playing up Mr. Prude’s potential for danger and glossing over the tactics of the officers who pinned him, naked and hooded, to the ground before he stopped breathing.
In a police report on the confrontation, marking a box for “victim type,” an officer on the scene listed Mr. Prude — who the police believed had broken a store window that night — simply as an “individual.” But another officer circled the word in red and scribbled a note.
OK. So. There's Jon Burge and the 'Midnight Crew', which tortured people into confessions (eletric shocks on genitals, etc) in Chicago in the '80s? Do you think those people they tortured were mostly white?
"Scores of African American men have accused Burge, who is white, and detectives working under him of torturing or abusing them during the 1970s and ’80s on the South Side. The scandal has stained the city’s reputation and cost taxpayers well in excess of $100 million in lawsuit settlements, judgments, other compensation to victims and legal fees ... In 2013, then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel issued an unexpected public apology for the damage done by Burge to the city, calling the era a “dark chapter” that needed to be put in the past. In 2015, a reparations settlement with some Burge victims mandated that Chicago Public Schools teach eighth graders and high school sophomores about Burge’s crimes. The curriculum went into effect in 2017."
The Chicago Tribune is not a liberal newspaper; it trends center to center-right.
"In 2009, the state legislature passed a bill authorizing creation of the Illinois Torture Inquiry Relief Commission (TIRC) to investigate cases of people "in which police torture might have resulted in wrongful convictions". In some cases, allegedly coerced confessions were the only evidence leading to convictions. Its scope is limited to people tortured by Burge or by other officers under his authority, as made explicit in the law and by an appellate court review in March 2016."
Or the murder of LaQuan McDonald in 2014 and the attempted cover-up?
"At the request of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, the United States Department of Justice initiated a civil rights investigation into McDonald's death and the activities of the Chicago Police Department. It released its report in January 2017, describing the police as having a culture of "excessive violence," especially against minority suspects, and of having poor training and supervision. DOJ and city officials signed a consent decree for a plan for improvement to be overseen by the courts. Moreover, three Chicago police officers were tried for allegedly attempting to cover up events related to the shooting and were found not guilty by the Cook County Circuit Court on January 17, 2019"
If nothing else the above shows us there is systemic racism in Chicago's police.
I leave the research for Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Memphis, Missouri, Alabama, etc, to someone else.
Here's a more general article, not specific to Chicago:
"There’s powerful data collection that happens in our criminal courts. There have been studies showing that, all factors being equal, judges are rendering longer and harsher sentences for black defendants."
Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Sentencing: Evidence from the U.S. Federal Courts
"This paper examines 77,236 federal offenders sentenced under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 and concludes the following. First, after controlling for extensive criminological, demographic, and socioeconomic variables, I found that blacks, males, and offenders with low levels of education and income receive substantially longer sentences. Second, disparities are primarily generated by departures from the guidelines, rather than differential sentencing within the guidelines ... Last, blacks and males are also less likely to get no prison term when that option is available; less likely to receive downward departures; and more likely to receive upward adjustments and, conditioned on having a downward departure, receive smaller reductions than whites and females. "
I know you are smart and capable enough to find sources / evidence about those things as it’s been a huge topic of conversation across the nation for the past few months.
Any reputable newspaper. Any reputable university. The Federal Government itself.
Or simply using your eyes and ears and heart and Occam’s razor.
So, if you don’t want to see, acknowledge, or believe it, that’s on you.
I’m not going to play the game where it’s my job to convince the skeptic that the sky is blue when they say “oh but it’s night right now and it sure doesn’t look blue to me.”
If you want to share a link to a reputable source mentioned by Larry Elder I’ll take a quick look but I’m not watching a video.
Also the idea that “the horrible systemic racism in the past” is all gone now, when “the past“ was only 70 years ago (1960), is silly, when you consider how entrenched racism is in America here since day one.
If only the world changed that quickly.