Never argue over criminal justice racism with a defense attorney

Fact: The US criminal justice system is racially biased.

Another fact: If you try to pretend otherwise, a criminal defense attorney may make mincemeat out of you.

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Tweet by T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette), posted on 11/26/17 at 2:01 PM:

“People are not incarcerated for their race.”

Impressed this is still a talking point in 2017 https://twitter.com/chadfelixg/status/934856428770267137

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Tweet by T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette), posted on 11/26/17 at 2:07 PM:

Yes. It’s not even a novel argument, and has been confirmed by Big Data for years now.

Quoted tweet by Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg), posted on 11/26/17 2:02 PM:

You are asserting the police put people in jail for belonging to specific racial or ethnic groups in America today.

In North Carolina, Maryland, and Illinois, unvarnished traffic stop data confirms policing deliberate target minorities for traffic stops and searches, even without probable causehttps://t.co/nGfD7lfxxq

— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) November 26, 2017

In Colorado, police illegally searched a predominantly black housing complex as a “training exercise,” for which taxpayers will be paying $110K+https://t.co/GuDmB3SadZ

— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) November 26, 2017

In Louisiana, a black man was released from prison after serving 46 years for a rape he didn’t commithttps://t.co/XeHFjl1hQu

— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) November 26, 2017

In California, police planted cocaine in a black man’s wallet. Caught themselves on their own bodycamhttps://t.co/ghyYnIQifw

— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) November 26, 2017

Speaking of Maryland, that Lamar Johnson guy freed after serving 12 years for a murder he didn’t commit?

He’s blackhttps://t.co/LXrxlJrITe

— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) November 26, 2017

They’re not all black of course. The unarmed 14yo boy savagely beaten by 3 California officers – leading to their federal indictment – was brownhttps://t.co/hTloKHXRSz

— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) November 26, 2017

While we’re on the topic of wrongful arrests, Louisiana taxpayers will be shelling out $$$$$$$$ for Black Lives Matter protestors who were illegally arrested

(Note: black)https://t.co/yQH8wsMEVz

— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) November 26, 2017

That’s of course when Mississippi Police don’t just kill black people outright and plant evidence on them, like this deputy under federal indictment https://t.co/YPETCCqeM9

— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) November 26, 2017

Or in Georgia, where they kill black men for socializing with white women and continue their law enforcement jobs like nothing happenedhttps://t.co/9cX4CPnqr8

— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) November 26, 2017

All these are just a tiny handful of examples that all fit snugly within national trends: Black people (and other minorities to a slightly lesser extent) get arrested far more often than Whites do even when accounting for other statistics. One example racists on the Right often bring up is drugs, which they claim are ravaging Black communities at far higher rates than White communities, thus supposedly explaining the increased drug-related arrests amongst Black people. But the reality is White people sell drugs more often than Black people do and both groups consume them at roughly similar rates; in the case of marijuana, Blacks are more than three times more likely to get arrested over it. These trends are even found in schools. And then we have last week’s report, conducted by the US government itself, finding that Black people receive far harsher sentences than Whites do for the same crimes.

The US criminal justice system is hideously and fundamentally racist; that much is obvious to any rational person even without someone flooding you with dozens of examples on Twitter. Yet predictably:

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Tweet by T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette), posted on 11/26/17 at 2:49 PM:

There are several hundred more specific examples compiled since we started the @fsckemall podcast in May

That’s on top of the aggregated data proving the general trends

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Tweet by T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette), posted on 11/26/17 at 2:50 PM:

To be fair, this is the response I’ve come to expect from Federalist writers when confronted with facts.

Quoted tweet by Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg), posted on 11/26/17 2:08 PM:

Wow.
Alrighty then.
*checks off list of reasonable people to discuss things with... https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/934861098087575552

Such is the typical dance of the denier: Crow that the experts don’t know what they’re talking about and that the system’s just fine, then run the other way when they get their ass handed to them and try to pretend they somehow won that argument. You can’t teach those who don’t want to learn. Luckily, more and more people do, hence why we’re hearing so much about these issues nowadays.

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