re: "AG Sessions is poised to usher in a rise in the number of imprisoned Americans"

Inimai M. Chettiar is the Director of the Brennan Center’s Justice Program. The Justice Program’s priority initiative is to end mass incarceration, while keeping the country safe. It melds law, economics, and policy to produce empirical reports and innovative policy solutions. The program also conducts federal and state advocacy and strategic litigation.

And here's a statement from the "Justice Program" that Chettiar heads:

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Our system of justice fails to live up to the American ideals of equality, fairness, and justice. Dysfunction in our criminal and civil legal systems is of grave proportions. The U.S. currently incarcerates 2.3 million Americans—disproportionately people of color—and more than 25 percent of Americans have a criminal conviction. Many of these individuals are also saddled with massive fees with few options for reentering society.

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Yep, just as I predicted before I even read the first bit about her, she believes that whites are racist and lock black people up for fun. Of course, she and other liberals always fail to acknowledge the obvious: there's more blacks in prison because blacks commit more crimes. Full Stop. White racism doesn't make blacks in Chicago wholesale murder each other every weekend.

If there is a way to make black communities less criminal, then I am all for it. Simply not locking them up is not going to solve anything, but will only make it worse by encouraging more criminal acts.

Oh yes!!! Session is the one committing the crimes.

It's a fact people of color get harsher sentences. A fact. The criminal justice system is racist.

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Good. Enforce the laws, don't like them change them.

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Holy hyberbole, Batman!

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I'm actually not sure its hyperbole with Sessions, he's literally said that good people don't smoke weed.

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I lean towards your argument on this but what about the fsct that a crackdown recreational weed would hit almost exclusively blue states (Alaska and part of Maine are the only exceptions)?

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Alaska AG already said it wouldn't affect Alaska. Probably any other state that legalized either.

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Holy hyberbole, Batman!

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Sessions literally said good moral people don't smoke weed.

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It's a fact people of color get harsher sentences. A fact. The criminal justice system is racist.

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The evidence is not debatable that blacks commit far more violent crimes than whites. The FBI's own statistics show this clearly. LINK

In 2012, blacks committed 5,531 murders while whites committed 4,582 murders. This is staggering when you consider Blacks make up 13% of the population while Whites make up between 60-75% of the population (depending on how you define "white").

Between 1980 and 2008 (30 year period) blacks committed about 50% of ALL murders in the U.S. This means for 30 years that 13% of the population committed 50% of all murders. It's an amazing statistic. And it's true. The DOJ's own statistics prove it. LINK

Taking all of that into account, has it ever occurred to you that Police stop and frisk blacks more often because the stats show they are more likely to be involved in criminal activity? Has it ever occurred to you that Police patrol black neighborhoods more often because that's where most of the crime is happening?

We can argue that some crimes are over prosecuted (like non-violent drug offenses), but we can't argue that the only reason more blacks are in jail is because of racism. No, the FBI and SOJ statistics show clearly that they are involved in more crime. Period. It's not debatable.