What % of incarcerated fathers were present fathers when they were incarcerated?
That’s not the only question. Incarceration also drastically limits the jobs that are available, leading to disproportionate poverty rates which feed into reliance on social safety systems that punish two-adult households, for one example of another way the system perpetuates racist cycles.
You can’t educate someone like this one sentence at a time. The only way he will learn is if he has the self-motivation to completely dive into the historical, political, social, and economic forces that shape the lives of black Americans with a sincere effort to learn.
So long as he satisfies himself with confirming his prejudices with random factlets, this same conversation will be played out over and over again, each time starting from Square One.
I’m well aware of the legacy of slavery, but illegitimacy is a fairly recent problem caused by the war on poverty.
As far as sentencing reform goes, sure, nonviolent offenders shouldn’t go to jail at all IMO, but the violent need to be locked up for a long time and we made a decision as a society to start doing that. We’re not going backwards and letting these people out to abuse their kids.
Seriously, man. Take a minute or two. Read up on the issue.
Given our homicide rate, I don’t think we’re quick enough to incarcerate.
The homicide rate that is at record lows?
That has nothing to do with how long we should incarcerate murderers.
Anyway, to further prove that racism has nothing to do with illegitimacy, fertility rates for African-American women are falling much faster than for whites. Things are getting better and getting better quickly.
Yeah, the one that is like triple England’s and Australia’s and Canda’s (number is are a very rough approximation, posting from phone, so not going to be able to provide a supporting cite or the exact figure right now)
If you wanted the murder rate to go up, one way to do that would be to let violent felons remain loose on the streets despite multiple convictions.
“Sentencing reform” should not mean leniency for violent offenders. It should mean leniency for non-violent offenders and reduction in sentencing disparities between ethnic groups.
Huh. I wonder if there are any other significant differences between the US and those listed countries that might influence rates of violent crime.
Given that the point had been about the social effects of disproportionate incarceration, this stuff about homicide and violent crime is a red herring. Disproportionate incarceration comes from the drug war; the leading category of incarcerated black men is those convicted only of nonviolent drug crimes.
Cite (because I’m curious, not doubtful)?
That’s not really true.
Most people are actually in for hurting other people. Those people should serve their full sentences.
“I want to release violent criminals” is not really a winning position, probably anywhere in the country.
That’s why as usual, politicians lie, acting as if this is all about the drug war. Funny thing is, they aren’t talking too much about releasing white collar criminals either, even though those types pose almost zero threat to society by their freedom. For most of them, simply not allowing them to practice their profession neutralizes the threat they pose.
Taxes. They are the largest group to benefit from “less government.” Ignoring the fact that all our bridges will eventually collapse.
Not really. Most whites benefit immensely from universal social insurance programs like Social Security and Medicare as well as infrastructure and the like.
“less government” doesn’t have to mean “zero bridge maintenance / repairs / replacement”. It could just mean we don’t build bridges to nowhere anymore.
I don’t feel like I benefit from Social Security. If I could opt out of it and the associated taxes tomorrow, I would. Medicare … I don’t know. I’m in my 30’s so I haven’t really run a cost-benefit analysis, but if it’s like most things government does, I’ll probably feel like I could’ve done better myself.
That being said, I realize that I’m a bit of an outlier and there are plenty of people who wouldn’t do a good job of planning for their retirement or health care needs.