Dallas Police murders.

Smellin Coffee said:
On any given day in the United States there are 731,000 people sitting in more than 3,000 jails. Despite the country growing safer?with violent crime down 49 percent and property crime down 44 percent from their highest points more than 20 years ago?annual admissions to jails nearly doubled between 1983 and 2013 from six million to 11.7 million, a number equivalent to the combined populations of Los Angeles and New York City and nearly 20 times the annual admissions to state and federal prisons. Not only are more people ending up in jail today compared to three decades ago, those who get there are spending more time behind bars, with the average length of stay increasing from 14 days to 23 days.

Although jails serve an important function in local justice systems?to hold people deemed too dangerous to release pending trial or at high risk of flight?this is no longer primarily what jails do or whom they hold. Three out of five people in jail are unconvicted of any crime and are simply too poor to post even low bail to get out while their cases are being processed. Nearly 75 percent of both pretrial detainees and sentenced offenders are in jail for nonviolent traffic, property, drug, or public order offenses. Underlying the behavior that lands people in jail, there is often a history of substance abuse, mental illness, poverty, failure in school, and homelessness. Moreover, jailing practices have had a disproportionate impact on communities of color. Nationally, African Americans are jailed at almost four times the rate of white Americans despite their making up only 13 percent of the U.S. population. Locally, disparities can be even starker: in New York City, for example, blacks are jailed at nearly 12 times and Latinos more than five times the rate of whites.

Although most defendants admitted to jail over the course of a year are released within hours or days, rather than weeks or months, even a short stay in jail can have dire consequences. Research has shown that spending as few as two days in jail can increase the likelihood of a sentence of incarceration and the harshness of that sentence, reduce economic viability, promote future criminal behavior, and worsen the health of the largely low-risk defendants who enter them?making jail a gateway to deeper and more lasting involvement in the criminal justice system at considerable costs to the people involved and to society at large.
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To piggyback on our quote, see how similar the Louisiana prison system is pretty much legal slavery:

Louisiana is the world's prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. First among Americans means first in the world. Louisiana's incarceration rate is nearly five times Iran's, 13 times China's and 20 times Germany's.

The hidden engine behind the state's well-oiled prison machine is cold, hard cash. A majority of Louisiana inmates are housed in for-profit facilities, which must be supplied with a constant influx of human beings or a $182 million industry will go bankrupt.

Several homegrown private prison companies command a slice of the market. But in a uniquely Louisiana twist, most prison entrepreneurs are rural sheriffs, who hold tremendous sway in remote parishes like Madison, Avoyelles, East Carroll and Concordia. A good portion of Louisiana law enforcement is financed with dollars legally skimmed off the top of prison operations.

If the inmate count dips, sheriffs bleed money. Their constituents lose jobs. The prison lobby ensures this does not happen by thwarting nearly every reform that could result in fewer people behind bars. Meanwhile, inmates subsist in bare-bones conditions with few programs to give them a better shot at becoming productive citizens. Each inmate is worth $24.39 a day in state money, and sheriffs trade them like horses, unloading a few extras on a colleague who has openings. A prison system that leased its convicts as plantation labor in the 1800s has come full circle and is again a nexus for profit.

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Do all of Louisiana's 40,000 inmates need to be incarcerated for the interests of punishment and public safety to be served? Gov. Bobby Jindal, a conservative Republican with presidential ambitions, says the answer is no. Despite locking up more people for longer periods than any other state, Louisiana has one of the highest rates of both violent and property crimes. Yet the state shows no signs of weaning itself off its prison dependence.

"You have people who are so invested in maintaining the present system -- not just the sheriffs, but judges, prosecutors, other people who have links to it," said Burk Foster, a former professor at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette and an expert on Louisiana prisons. "They don't want to see the prison system get smaller or the number of people in custody reduced, even though the crime rate is down, because the good old boys are all linked together in the punishment network, which is good for them financially and politically."

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Fred Schoonover, deputy warden of the 522-bed Tensas Parish Detention Center in northeast Louisiana, says he does not view inmates as a "commodity." But he acknowledges that the prison's business model is built on head counts. Like other wardens in this part of the state, he wheels and deals to maintain his tally of human beings. His boss, Tensas Parish Sheriff Rickey Jones, relies on him to keep the numbers up.

"We struggle. I stay on the phone a lot, calling all over the state, trying to hustle a few," Schoonover said.

Some sheriffs, and even a few small towns, lease their prison rights to private companies. LaSalle Corrections, based in Ruston, plays a role in housing one of seven Louisiana prisoners. LCS Corrections Services, another homegrown company, runs three Louisiana prisons and is a major donor to political campaigns, including those of urban sheriffs who supply rural prisons with inmates.
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Louisiana is the world's prison capital
 
People who commit crimes are arrested, tried and sentenced for the crimes THEY commit. Maybe we should have a gubmit campaign to encourage whites to commit more crimes.
 
Tarheel Baptist said:
People who commit crimes are arrested, tried and sentenced for the crimes THEY commit. Maybe we should have a gubmit campaign to encourage whites to commit more crimes.
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And the poor are incarcerated before their trials and cannot come up with the funds for bail. Violent crimes? Some, sure. Others are due to "nonviolent traffic, property, drug, or public order offenses." Why? So the rich can get richer, using our judicial system to pad their pockets and enslave people who are legally "innocent" because they have yet to be "proven guilty". This affects those who have legitimate jobs, familial relationships and creates financial losses. With much of this happening in black communities, this is a big contributor to keeping the poor poor, keeping the poor from getting jobs and keeping daddies away from their children. So the rich can enslave them and sometimes sell them to other jails for personal profit.

And it is poor communities that get targeted. They are less likely to be "on the move". They are most likely to live in poverty, a state of being which induces more crime. They are more likely to be in the area of crimes, picked up as "suspects" simply because they were in the area where a crime was committed. Police departments are awarded funds for arrest, even if the defendant is later deemed to be innocent. People are arrested because they are talking on the streets to those who are guilty, simply because they are at the wrong place at the wrong time. (I had a friend once arrested for this, even though he didn't know about the crime - spent time in jail and was later acquitted, but he lost his job anyway.)
 
Here we go again... it is someone else's fault.  Now it is the prison system....then it's money.... How about you quit breaking the law?  That is the first step.

How about they address 72% of children born out of wedlock in the black community... or the 67% where the biological father does not reside with their own children.  The government by way of the welfare state has  exacerbated this statistic by  providing an avenue for the black community to exist without taking responsibility for their actions.  Knock someone up, Uncle Sam will take care of it... No skills to get a job, no need to acquire skills, the government can cut a check.  We are now expanding this success to the illegal immigrant community,  but it won't work as well since they have a very strong work ethic despite the "illegal" part.

If BLM or if YOU were serious about saving the black community, they would be in Austin or Englewood neighborhoods rather than on the Magnificent Mile or one of the expressways.  But since the victim card requires less work, it must be everyone else that is to blame.

You blame "heyjackass.com" as bias, who obtains statistics as published on their front page:
We compile our own dataset using the following sources: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Homicide Watch Chicago, DNAInfo Chicago, Chicago Redeye Homicide Tracker (no longer updated), NBC5 Chicago, Chicago Tribune?s Shooting Tracker & Homicide Tracker, CPD?s Historical Data Set, City of Chicago Data Portal and CPD CLEARMAP.
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But then come with a bunch of stuff from Vera who 's majority funding is provided by the government or governmental agencies (which they include no where on their webiste, you have to dig through their 990).  In addition, there are close ties between Vera and George Soros.  Vera's director from 94-04, Chris Stone,  is a Soros lackey who now is president of the Soros operated Open Society Foundation, chairman of the Open Society Policy Center, and close friends with Tom Perez who was the Asst. Attorney General in the Obama Administration and now serves as the Secretary of Labor.

Former Vera Director of Court Programs and Soros Senior Justice Fellowship from the Open Society Institute recipient, Judith Greene, went out and started the Soros controlled Justice Strategies, who's current staff list includes: Nestor Rios (Essex Bail Bond Program for the Vera Institute);  William Rodriguez (who "served in a variety of leadership positions with the Vera Institute of Justice"); Sally Hillsman who was the Associate Director of the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City;  Vivian Nixon, a recipient of the Soros Justice Advocacy Fellowship awarded by the Open Society Institute ;  Paticia Allard, Open Society Institute Soros Justice Advocacy Fellow; and Robert Rooks, Open Society Institute Soros Justice Advocacy Fellow. 

And Vera receives grants from...

drum roll....

The Open Society Foundation.

The Open Society Institute was a contributor for many years to Media Matters, until Soros began to directly contribute personally.  The OSI also contributed to the Lynne Stewart Defense Committee.  Stewart was convicted of illegally helping her incarcerated client, the ?blind sheik? Omar Abdel Rahman, pass messages to an Egypt-based Islamic terrorist organization.

Through his Open Society Foundations, Soros in 2014 gave at least $33 million to support already-established groups that, as The Washington Times puts it, "emboldened the grass-roots, on-the-ground activists in Ferguson" and helped lead the anti-police protests. " The financial tether from Mr. Soros to the activist groups gave rise to a combustible protest movement that transformed a one-day criminal event in Missouri into a 24-hour-a-day national cause celebre," says the Times.
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Stevie Wonder could see the correlation between Soros and the BLM movement.

Seems like you are bought and paid for my friend.
 
Smellin Coffee said:
Tarheel Baptist said:
People who commit crimes are arrested, tried and sentenced for the crimes THEY commit. Maybe we should have a gubmit campaign to encourage whites to commit more crimes.
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And the poor are incarcerated before their trials and cannot come up with the funds for bail. Violent crimes? Some, sure. Others are due to "nonviolent traffic, property, drug, or public order offenses." Why? So the rich can get richer, using our judicial system to pad their pockets and enslave people who are legally "innocent" because they have yet to be "proven guilty". This affects those who have legitimate jobs, familial relationships and creates financial losses. With much of this happening in black communities, this is a big contributor to keeping the poor poor, keeping the poor from getting jobs and keeping daddies away from their children. So the rich can enslave them and sometimes sell them to other jails for personal profit.

And it is poor communities that get targeted. They are less likely to be "on the move". They are most likely to live in poverty, a state of being which induces more crime. They are more likely to be in the area of crimes, picked up as "suspects" simply because they were in the area where a crime was committed. Police departments are awarded funds for arrest, even if the defendant is later deemed to be innocent. People are arrested because they are talking on the streets to those who are guilty, simply because they are at the wrong place at the wrong time. (I had a friend once arrested for this, even though he didn't know about the crime - spent time in jail and was later acquitted, but he lost his job anyway.)
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I/we regularly...daily in fact... minister in the poorest area of our community. We serve lunch there until school starts back in August.There are distinct, obvious disadvantages to being poor.
But the platitudes and anecdotal liberal line you peddle will never change anything.
And, many of the people living that way know it. They make fun of what they call 'do-gooders'....which turned out to be the local liberal ecumenical organization. The people of 'our' neighborhood petitioned and got a police sub station there, to protect them from some of their neighbors!  ;)
 
Many police officers are good men. Many black men are good men.
Police brutality and police targeting are both wrong.
Some of us do not know what it is like to be a black man.
Some of us do not know what it is like to wear a badge.
 
Police union say BLM supports 'killing cops':

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20160711-blacklivesmatter-kills-cops-fort-worth-police-group-claims-in-viral-post.ece
 
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