Re:The Economics of the American Prison System
by sethrin on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @07:13PM
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Are you joking, racist, or just stupid? Do you imagine we have jails all over the country brimming with Mexican cartel lords? Are drug-dealing latinos installed on every corner like street lights, all through the US? What does the word "minority" mean to you? I will give you the benefit of the doubt by assuming that you're not intentionally being racist, and by assuming that you actually live in some area that has some sort of a problem with organized crime. This is far from true for most of the US.
Re:The Economics of the American Prison System
by jiggy2011 on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @07:22PM
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I don't see where I claimed any of those things, especially how my claims are racist?
You claimed that drug dealing is a non violent activity. I showed an example of where that is demonstrably not the case. Roughly 65% of the coke in the US comes through mexico where it is causing serious violence.
In my home country (UK) we also have problems with violence and intimidation from drug gangs in many deprived areas.
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"Drug crime and other crime go hand in hand." [Citation Needed]
"Those who are currently dealing drugs don't know how to play this game and will lose." And then get a real job.
"They can't go and get a straight job because they have no provable work history, probably a criminal record and few contacts outside of the "underworld". They also have become accustomed to a lifestyle of nice cars and (possibly multiple) high maintenance girlfriends, so McDonalds isn't going to cut it." You have no idea what you're talking about. The margins are not that high.
Your image of drug dealers applies to an extremely small minority. You must only know what these people are like from TV.