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Re:I'm a Judge and I Think Criminal Court Is Horrifying by maratd on Saturday August 13, 2016 @10:56PM (#12284108)
No. The reason he had the experience he had was because it was a "wealthy" suburb, not because it was "white". There is a difference between correlation and causation. The root cause wasn't race, but the low volume typical of wealthy suburbs, allowing the judge to take his time. Put him in a situation where he needs to arraign a 100 people in a session and he won't be as nice anymore.

There are a number of other posters who hit the nail on the head. The problem is really with how we fund the courts. More volume needs to equate with proportional increase in resources.

Re:I'm a Judge and I Think Criminal Court Is Horrifying by Someone on Sunday August 14, 2016 @09:09AM (#12285437)
"The root cause wasn't race"

That doesn't necessarily imply it isn't racist. There is such a thing as indirect discrimination. http://blog.oup.com/2015/07/indirect-discrimination-us-uk-la...:

"Indirect discrimination occurs when an apparently neutral rule or policy has a disproportionate and adverse impact on a protected group, and supposedly neutral policies become suspect unless they can be shown to be necessary for achieving legitimate goals. For example, prohibiting headgear (which would affect Sikhs), imposing a minimum height requirement (which could exclude women), or requiring a graduation degree (in a social context where a particular racial group has very few university graduates)."

In this case, one may wonder why courthouses in poorer neighborhoods aren't as well maintained as those in richer ones, and why, if the court is overloaded with cases, there aren't more judges applied to it. _If_ that's because of a rule "a courthouse per X citizens", one could argue that's indirect racism.

However, that same blog post seems to indicate that US law isn't that strong in making "disparate impact" illegal, if the impact isn't intentional.

Re:I'm a Judge and I Think Criminal Court Is Horrifying by philwelch on Sunday August 14, 2016 @03:44AM (#12284661)
Name some wealthy black suburbs before you rule out structural racism.
Re:I'm a Judge and I Think Criminal Court Is Horrifying by travmatt on Sunday August 14, 2016 @07:27AM (#12285173)
""" On May 31 and June 1, 1921, hundreds of whites led a racially motivated attack on the black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing some 300 people, mostly blacks. The attack, carried out on the ground and by air, destroyed more than 35 blocks of the district, then the wealthiest black community in the nation. More than 800 people were admitted to hospitals and more than 6,000 black residents were arrested and detained, some for as many as eight days. [2] The official count of the dead by the Oklahoma Bureau of Vital Statistics was 39. """ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot
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Re:I'm a Judge and I Think Criminal Court Is Horrifying by hobs on Sunday August 14, 2016 @12:24AM (#12284257)
Please dont mix a useful argument and things like "Dont talk about race or justice ever again" that is the same type of drivel as the GP.
Re:I'm a Judge and I Think Criminal Court Is Horrifying by sctb on Sunday August 14, 2016 @01:20PM (#12286398)
Personal attacks are not OK on Hacker News. Please don't do this here.
Re:I'm a Judge and I Think Criminal Court Is Horrifying by rimantas on Sunday August 14, 2016 @06:54AM (#12285125)
You do some study yourself. Will educate your and save us from reading your nonsense.