Incarceration Rates
The incarceration rates are merely based off of the crime committed, not racial bias in the criminal justice system. Conversely different crimes have different punishment rates, so not everybody is going to get the same type of punishment. It may seem that a white man may get a lenient sentence compared to a black and his crime, but there are different factors that go into making someone's punishment. After reading “Is the Criminal Justice System Racist? By Heather Mac Donald a certain quote made me unsure about the criminal Justice system being unbiased. It states “...About one in 33 black men was in prison, compared to one in 205 white men and one in 79 Hispanic men.” As it may seem that our criminal Justice system is horribly biased against
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It could be a minor or misdemeanor crime or something as serious as a felony. Even if two people get arrested for what seems to be the same thing judges have different things they also look at. They can go back and look at a criminal's history, if the offender was the main offender or the accessory, whether anyone was hurt in the crime, if the offender was cruel or destructive to the victim, or even if the offender showed any kind of remorse or regret. Consequently these could all affect the judge's decision for their crime so sentences are never really consistent. It's not that the judge is racially bias or racist it just because of the fact everybody has different reasoning and some judges just may be harsher than others. It's just like parents. No set of parents is exactly the same. They all have different concepts and different rules for their children. Nevertheless to stretch that the criminal justice system overall is corrupted with racial bias is a mis accusation for a bigger picture that most don’t see. When we commit a crime, we all are treated fairly and are judged on the crime and the situation itself. Every crime is different and we need to remember that before we jump to conclusions. We need to keep an open mind and know that like people no crime is the same and the system has different factors and people to judge an offender's
It could be a minor or misdemeanor crime or something as serious as a felony. Even if two people get arrested for what seems to be the same thing judges have different things they also look at. They can go back and look at a criminal's history, if the offender was the main offender or the accessory, whether anyone was hurt in the crime, if the offender was cruel or destructive to the victim, or even if the offender showed any kind of remorse or regret. Consequently these could all affect the judge's decision for their crime so sentences are never really consistent. It's not that the judge is racially bias or racist it just because of the fact everybody has different reasoning and some judges just may be harsher than others. It's just like parents. No set of parents is exactly the same. They all have different concepts and different rules for their children. Nevertheless to stretch that the criminal justice system overall is corrupted with racial bias is a mis accusation for a bigger picture that most don’t see. When we commit a crime, we all are treated fairly and are judged on the crime and the situation itself. Every crime is different and we need to remember that before we jump to conclusions. We need to keep an open mind and know that like people no crime is the same and the system has different factors and people to judge an offender's