If he stands behind his arrest/usage disparity being racist he also has to stand behind it being sexist as well.
If he stands behind his arrest/usage disparity being racist he also has to stand behind it being sexist as well.
Again, all you've shown is a disparity. A disparity is not racist. In order to prove that it is, you need to show specific intent by police to be targeting people of color because they are people of color. Arrests happening more in low income areas because there is more crime, and as thus higher arrests for drugs is not racist, it happens because there is a larger police for in higher crime areas.
Another example and possibility. Find a white low income high crime rate area and compare it with black low income high crime rate area and see if there are different arrests rates.
I have. God damn there are only so many ways to explain this to you. Black people being arrested more than white people for a crime they commit at the same rate is a fact. You don't dispute it. What you don't understand is that that is racism. You're looking at it right in the face and going nah.
Repeating the claim as a rebuttal of my counter argument isn't worth anyone's time. The claim doesn't need to prove anyone's intent, because its not a claim about intent.
There we go! An assertion. Time for supporting evidence! Counter point to consider, drug arrests are one of the most common arrests.Arrests happening more in low income areas because there is more crime, and as thus higher arrests for drugs is not racist, it happens because there is a larger police for in higher crime areas.
Sure, let's take a look.Another example and possibility. Find a white low income high crime rate area and compare it with black low income high crime rate area and see if there are different arrests rates.
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Black and white people use illegal drugs at the same rate. White people are actually somewhat more likely to deal drugs.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/quicktabl...34481-0001_all
There is where all the data is that vox pulled from. The usage rates of males is only 9% higher than females yet males are arrested at 3 times the rate.
Here is the spreadsheet for arrest rates by gender
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s...ables/table-54
It also needs to be asked, who is actually the racist here. The one that jumps to the racist conclusion at the drop of hat, or everyone else that doesn't see color.
So your assertion is the police force is full of racist sexists?
So black people tend to get sickle cell more than whites. Is that then therefore racist?
Genetic predisposition. That would be the "mitigating factor" I've been asking if someone has for the observed arrest rates.
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So if I craft a law specifically designed to keep black people from voting, but only because they're more likely to vote for my opponent you don't think that would be racist?
But you haven't proven exact same factors, only usage and arrest factors. Basically you have proven they are racist only if the cops are alerted to every usage. I would then say you have to prove there is equal knowledge by the cops to prove that your disparity is racist.
Basically the way crime goes down for drug offenses would be
Usage/possesion
Observation by law officer
Arrest
You have missed the middle part. you went straight from usage to arrest.
I disagree. Take for example: Al Sharpton. He jumps to a racist conclusion at every turn. Will cry from the highest mountain top, even after it's been proven that the person who he's said is proven to be lying.
Further, he says he's helped innercity Chicago, but crime rates and murders are going up, and not down, and even moreso, he recruited Black Panthers out of Chicago to go to Ferguson to incite violence, to further support his racist claims.