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Re:Why People Feel Like Victims by nec4b on Friday May 07, 2021 @07:14AM (#27074620)
Most of the examples were about police targeting black people disproportionately compared to other races concluding that is because of systemic racism. Is there a law that compels police officers to behave in such a way? The answer is none. Therefore it can't be systemic. The targeting comes from individual decisions by individual officers. Whether this is from prejudice or bad experience or plain racism is unknown. For that you would have to divide individuals officers into buckets by their race in see the statics for each bucket. For example do black officers also arrest disproportionate number of black people? You would need all the combinations from different buckets to get a sense of underlying reasons.
Re:Why People Feel Like Victims by epakai on Friday May 07, 2021 @12:07PM (#27077371)
What if a certain group of laws (say drug laws) was created specifically so police could target certain minorities? There isn't any particular motivation in the law to arrest more black people for marijuana use, but despite similar usage by race (2-4% difference https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2017/08/11/char...) arrests for Blacks happen at 3-6 times Whites. There's lots to suggest the war on drugs is racially motivated, but it criminalizes drug use and possession, not race (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_the_war_on_drugs)
Re:Why People Feel Like Victims by nec4b on Friday May 07, 2021 @03:15PM (#27079794)
>What if a certain group of laws (say drug laws) was created specifically so police could target certain minorities?

Could you point to such a law or even better cite a paragraph from such a law where you feel it targets certain minorities? How do police officers from minority background do their job?

Re:Why People Feel Like Victims by breakyerself on Saturday May 08, 2021 @04:33AM (#27085118)
Are you not aware of the sentencing disparities between crack and cocain?

Also the war on drugs started under the Nixon admin was an intentional effort to target black people and anti-war activists.

https://www.businessinsider.com/nixon-adviser-ehrlichman-ant...

Re:Why People Feel Like Victims by nec4b on Saturday May 08, 2021 @05:07PM (#27090693)
Could you provide a link to a law that requires harsher sentencing for black people (specific paragraph would be appreciated)? Do you also have statistics on how harsh judges from different races are towards black people when sentencing?