re: Life Long dawg fan

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All the recent events aside BLM does bring up a serious problem that needs to be discussed and that's police reform as well as other things such as criminal justice reform, war on drugs, and private prison problem

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For good or bad this is the way we change things in the United States...always has been, probably always will be. The three items mentioned have impacted black people in inordinately higher numbers than black folks but there are more and more white people getting caught up in the fouled up mess...if you hate black people at least have some concern about your own families and friends..

We have a problem in this country. We ask police to do an impossible job and then refuse to provide the support they need to do that job. We have DAs and teams of prosecutors who openly state their goal being prosecutions and not justice and private prisons whose bottom line is based on how many people are arrested and convicted and sentenced to long prison terms...companies who think nothing of openly enticing prosecutors and judges into siding with them against those accused of crimes with trips and tickets and outright cash payments. We have declared war on a sizable number of citizens who choose to use drugs. While this inordinately impacts black people it crosses racial lines...if you despise black people for being black thats one thing but doing so and ignoring the fact that the police can seize your property for running stop sign and never return it without any sort of due process is concerning for all Americans or should be....

Being tough on crime does not mean tossing folks in prison with trumped up evidence and jail house snitches being offered reduced jail time in exchange for testimony etc just to make sure someone pays, regardless of guilt or innocence. All that does is make a mockery of the system and allows the actual perpetrator the opportunity to commit more crimes against more people...and eventually means we release someone from prison with an understandably bad attitude and some barriers to being a productive citizen which are damn near impossible to overcome...and then have the unmitigated gall to be shocked when this person does commit a crime and goes back to prison.