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Re:Off duty, black cops in New York feel threat from fellow ... by byEngineer on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @06:13PM (#8790744)
Charged isn't convicted. Somehow Blacks are 70% of prison population. So it looks like the cops are right. Unless we will buy now into a conspiracy theory that Blacks are convicted based solely on the skin color.
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Re:Off duty, black cops in New York feel threat from fellow ... by thanksgiving on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @06:20PM (#8790773)
> Charged isn't convicted.

> Somehow Blacks are 70% of prison population.

Enter the plea bargain.

Those are not necessarily inconsistent. They will throw down the book at you and say you face 199 years in prison unless you plead guilty. Have you already forgotten Aaron Swartz?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

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