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Posted by AlM on Fri Apr 22 19:44:58 2005, in response to Re: A honest cultural question..., posted by Charles G on Fri Apr 22 16:51:38 2005. "I believe that they are, again generally speaking, being arrested and incarcerated because they broke the law. The police aren't to blame -- they are just doing their job."There is an issue here that relates to income disparity. If a kid in a poor neighborhood of any ethnicity does something illegal, such as setting off a firecracker or vandalizing a car in a small way, and is caught by a cop, he is more likely to be arrested, tried, and convicted of a crime than a kid committing the same crime in a comfortably well off neighborhood. In the well off neighborhood the cops will take the kid to his parents' house and give him a stern lecture in front of his parents. It's not necessarily the fault of individual police officers, but it is the fault of the policing system. |
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