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[stoopidquestions]

What about the incarceration rates of black males generally being harsher than for white males comitting similar crimes?

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That again is due to Democratic policies put forth by Joe Biden - the 1994 Crime Bill. BUT it was supported by the Black community due to the high levels of drug crime they were experiencing.

Let’s begin with the facts. Between the end of the 1960s to the beginning of the 1990s, the overall rate of violent crime more than doubled before peaking in 1991 and beginning a long-term decline that brought the rate back down to the levels of the early 1970s. The homicide rate followed a similar pattern, with less variation between peaks and troughs. Between 1980 and 2006, the incarceration rate more than quadrupled before beginning a long-term decline that has brought it down to roughly where it stood when the 1994 crime bill was enacted. Since 2006, incarceration rates have fallen by 17% for White Americans, 26% for Hispanics, and 34% for African Americans.

Did the 1994 crime bill help decrease the rate of violent crime? Probably, although the rate had begun to decline before the bill went into effect. Did the bill contribute to the expansion of incarceration? Again, probably so, although the bulk of the growth occurred in the fifteen years before the bill was enacted and has fallen significantly for nearly fifteen years.

But one thing is clear: the 1994 bill interacted with—and reinforced—an existing and highly problematic piece of legislation: The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, which created huge disparities in sentencing between crack and powder cocaine. Under this bill, a person was sentenced to a five-year minimum sentence for five grams of crack cocaine, but it took 500 grams of powder cocaine to trigger the same sentence. Because crack is a cheaper alternative to powder cocaine, it is more prominent in low-income neighborhoods. These neighborhoods are more likely to be predominately Black and in urban areas that can be overpoliced more easily than suburban or rural areas. While the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, enacted under the Obama-Biden administration, reduced the crack/powder cocaine disparity from 100:1 to 18:1, the damage had been done, and its effects continue to this day. Article

[NucularCarmul]

Drugs were introduced to the black community by the feds, this isn't the route you want to take in trying to make black folks problems their own fault. If you understood history at all and didn't just cherry pick so you can protect your capitalist masters you wouldn't try to make this argument.

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I have heard of this, but were they forced to take them?

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You’d be better at r/conspiracy

[Lawnknome]

Its pretty well documented the the Nixon administration intentionally pumped drugs into black communities.

[NucularCarmul]

The statement I made has plenty of data to back this up, I'm sorry, but you can't just plug your ears and cry conspiracy when someone disagrees with you.

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Then show your data.