Eric Holder Is Not Colorblind

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Another Day, Another Obama DOJ Attempt to Politicize and Racialize Criminal Justice

 

By Heather Mac Donald

 

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the Justice Department would start collecting racial data on police stops and arrests. The effort is part of the Obama administration’s war on phantom racism, a colossal waste of taxpayer resources and a depressing diversion from the real problems affecting black and Hispanic populations.

 

According to the NAACP, the ACLU, and now, the Justice Department, the fact that the police stop and arrest blacks and Hispanics at higher rates than whites demonstrates police racism. The Justice Department’s press release, like all such anti-cop propaganda, assiduously ignores the crucial fact that blacks and Hispanics commit crime at much higher rates than whites as well. Black males between the ages of 14 and 17, for example, commit homicide at ten times the rate of whites and Hispanics combined; if Hispanics were taken out of the equation (which federal data makes it difficult to do), the disparity between the white and black homicide rates would be even higher. Given such racial disparities in crime rates, the police cannot fight lawlessness without producing disproportionate stop and arrest figures.

 

Holder fingered as bigots not just the police, but the entire criminal-justice system as well:

 

 

A recent study, [Holder said], reported that half of African-American men have been arrested at least once by age 23. Overall, black men were 6 times, and Latino men were 2.5 times, more likely to be imprisoned than white men in 2012

This overrepresentation of young men of color in our criminal justice system is a problem we must confront—not only as an issue of individual responsibility but also as one of fundamental fairness, and as an issue of effective law enforcement. Racial disparities contribute to tension in our nation generally and within communities of color specifically, and tend to breed resentment towards law enforcement that is counterproductive to the goal of reducing crime.

 

Criminologists have spent decades trying to prove that the overrepresentation of blacks and Hispanic in prison demonstrates that the criminal justice system is racist. And each time they fail. Even the most left-wing academics have been forced to admit that crime, not race, determines criminal justice outcomes.

 

 

 

 

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[Joe Miner]

Another Day, Another Obama DOJ Attempt to Politicize and Racialize Criminal Justice

 

By Heather Mac Donald

 

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the Justice Department would start collecting racial data on police stops and arrests. The effort is part of the Obama administration’s war on phantom racism, a colossal waste of taxpayer resources and a depressing diversion from the real problems affecting black and Hispanic populations.

 

According to the NAACP, the ACLU, and now, the Justice Department, the fact that the police stop and arrest blacks and Hispanics at higher rates than whites demonstrates police racism. The Justice Department’s press release, like all such anti-cop propaganda, assiduously ignores the crucial fact that blacks and Hispanics commit crime at much higher rates than whites as well. Black males between the ages of 14 and 17, for example, commit homicide at ten times the rate of whites and Hispanics combined; if Hispanics were taken out of the equation (which federal data makes it difficult to do), the disparity between the white and black homicide rates would be even higher. Given such racial disparities in crime rates, the police cannot fight lawlessness without producing disproportionate stop and arrest figures.

 

Holder fingered as bigots not just the police, but the entire criminal-justice system as well:

 

A recent study, [Holder said], reported that half of African-American men have been arrested at least once by age 23. Overall, black men were 6 times, and Latino men were 2.5 times, more likely to be imprisoned than white men in 2012

This overrepresentation of young men of color in our criminal justice system is a problem we must confront—not only as an issue of individual responsibility but also as one of fundamental fairness, and as an issue of effective law enforcement. Racial disparities contribute to tension in our nation generally and within communities of color specifically, and tend to breed resentment towards law enforcement that is counterproductive to the goal of reducing crime.

 

Criminologists have spent decades trying to prove that the overrepresentation of blacks and Hispanic in prison demonstrates that the criminal justice system is racist. And each time they fail. Even the most left-wing academics have been forced to admit that crime, not race, determines criminal justice outcomes.

 

 

 

 

More at the link

 

Nothing like trying to treat the symptoms.

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Holder apparently believes that behavior is exactly equal, therefore the arrest rate is not equal.

 

How long until the crooks in some neighborhoods realize that once the monthly arrest quota is reached in their neighborhood that they'll have free reign for the rest of the month?

[yall]

 

 

Are you playing one of those games that make you put together a sentence from random words?

 

It's time to quit playing the blame game. It's been 150 years, more than enough time to overcome what their great-great-great-great-great granpappy had to endure.

 

I think Holder is a racist douche, but this comment is misleading. Segregation didn't end 150 years ago. Plenty of people that are still alive today experienced it, and to say that it didn't have long lasting negative consequences is shortsighted.

 

I agree that we need to address root causes and stop with the racially motivated band-aids. But there has to be an equal push from within these affected communities.