Wednesday, 31 January 2018

Mass Incarceration: New Jim Crow, Class War, or Both?

quote [ Public awareness of mass incarceration has grown in recent years thanks to groundbreaking books and activism from groups like Black Lives Matter. One aspect of this growing awareness has been an increased understanding of racial disparity in the criminal justice system. In 2010, white people were incarcerated at a rate of 450 per 100,000 while black people were incarcerated at a rate of 2,306 per 100,000. ]

NYC Agency Uses Brooklyn Gang Raid To Encourage Evictions Of Entire Families From Public Housing

Some businesses question fairness of Green Light effort - this sounds suspiciously like organized crime tactics.
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[by raphael_the_turtle@8:48pmGMT]

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rylex said @ 9:55pm GMT on 31st Jan [Score:1 Underrated]
Ain't no war but class war.

cb361 said @ 12:18pm GMT on 1st Feb
Classy.
Hugh E. said @ 11:32pm GMT on 31st Jan [Score:1 Underrated]
America has long demonstrated it can conduct two wars at the same time. It is class warfare. It is white supremacist warfare.

States With Large Black Populations Are Stingier With Government Benefits
Having more minorities on the rolls in turn created a new problem for case workers, though, who worried there would be backlash against welfare because of the number of black families receiving benefits, according to [Jennifer Mittelstadt, a professor of history at Rutgers University]. The term “welfare” had a positive connotation among Americans before the 1960s, according to [Joe Soss, a professor at the University of Minnesota], but as the program became more diverse, stereotypes about “freeloaders” started to emerge.

I could go on, but maybe that's a different post.
mechavolt said[1] @ 10:13pm GMT on 31st Jan
Economic disparity explains for much, but not all, of the differentials in judicial treatment. The rest is racism. Furthermore, race and class are so inextricably intertwined that it is impossible to focus on just one or the other. Anyone who says otherwise simply doesn't understand the data.

EDIT: And then I read the article, score.
Hugh E. said @ 11:43pm GMT on 31st Jan
It is absolutely possible to focus on one or the other*. Someone can focus on emphysema while someone else focuses on air pollution. The trick is the pulmonologist shouldn't try to thwart the environmentalist and vice versa.

*also both, of course
mechavolt said @ 11:57pm GMT on 31st Jan
I'm not sure I get your point. Individual effort isn't going to solve the problem, only systemic solutions will. And focusing a systemic solution on just race or class isn't going to to solve the problem, either.
Hugh E. said @ 12:49am GMT on 1st Feb
Individual efforts create systemic solutions. As noted, the focus on race and class must be concurrent to be effective lest racism prevail. Not everyone is adequately equipped to address both, but each can use the strength they have. That creates systemic solution.

It takes Sanders and Coates.
mechavolt said @ 10:11pm GMT on 1st Feb
Systemic solutions are made up of individuals, but that's not how it works. Otherwise charitable organizations would have solved many of our problems long ago. It's like saying you can solve homeless hunger if only we'd all just volunteer at the soup kitchen more often. Unless you're being pedantic for sake of an argument, I still don't get your point.
HoZay said @ 10:57pm GMT on 31st Jan
Main link has interesting charts & graphs. Author's conclusion: The justice system isn't so much biased against black people as it is biased against poor people. It just seems racist because black people are more likely to be poor.

And, it would be easier to create a racist, but otherwise economically just American society, than to eliminate racism from the justice system.

Which I think means fewer people in prison overall, because of economic justice, but prisons would still be disproportionately black, because racist policies would still have blacks at the bottom of the imagined more-equal system.
HoZay said @ 10:59pm GMT on 31st Jan
The Green Light Program: Police protection vs Police "Protection".
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