Police use force in less than 1% of arrests, shoot their guns even less, and long jail terms are res

[Kamaji]

Police use force in less than 1% of arrests, shoot their guns even less, and long jail terms are reserved for hardened criminals, says new study that tackles liberal theories of racist justice system

By JAMES REINL, SOCIAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT, FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
27 July 2022

Police are unfairly criticized as heavy-handed and long prison sentences are reserved for hardened criminals, says a new book that takes aim at liberal calls to empty prisons and defund the police.

Author Rafael Mangual says his study, Criminal (In)Justice, debunks ‘dominant narratives’ that ‘black and brown men’ unduly suffer at the hands of police and a criminal justice system that is stacked against them.

It runs counter to dozens of studies that have found that black people disproportionately suffer from police stops, searches and deaths in custody. A recent opinion poll found that 89 percent of Americans wanted police reforms.

Mangual, however, says he has crunched the numbers and found a ‘glaring incongruity between what the harshest critics of law enforcement were saying — about imprisonment and police use of force — and reality’.

‘A sober examination of the data on who goes to prison reveals that lengthy terms of incarceration are reserved for chronic, violent offenders who’ve already been given multiple “second chances”,’ said Mangual.

The author, who was raised in Brooklyn and Long Island, says 60.1 percent of prisoners in state-run centers were behind bars for violent or weapons offenses — not low-level or non-violent criminals.

They are very often repeat offenders, he added. Some 36 percent of violent convicted felons were on parole, probation, or pretrial release at the time of their offenses; and 80 percent of state prisoners commit new crimes within a decade of their release.

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11054137/Police-use-force-1-arrests-fire-weapons-says-new-book.html

[The_Reader_David]

Once again, an instance in which you have to read the foreign press to find out what's actually going on.  Notice it's the Daily Mail (British) covering this, not the American media.

[Kamaji]

Once again, an instance in which you have to read the foreign press to find out what's actually going on.  Notice it's the Daily Mail (British) covering this, not the American media.

Of course.

[goatprairie]

The "prison industrial complex" definition is:

 "the profit-driven relationship between the government, the private companies that build, manage, supply, and service prisons, and related groups (such as prison industry unions and lobbyists) regarded as the cause of increased incarceration rates especially of poor people and minorities and often for nonviolent crimes"

 The facts are, from looking at the incredible spike in violent crime and the inability of the authorities to stop it, is that there are not nearly enough violent offenders in prison.
But many libs and blacks devoutly believe that every day thousands of completely innocent young, black men are targeted by racist cops and either killed outright or unjustly sentenced to long prison terms for minor or imaginary crimes.
Just do as I do and read the daily news from a number of large American cities. That should swiftly disabuse anybody of the idea of innocent blacks languishing in prison or deliberately gunned down by racist white cops.
The most dangerous place for any black American continues to be standing or sitting next to another black person.

[roamer_1]

The facts are, from looking at the incredible spike in violent crime and the inability of the authorities to stop it, is that there are not nearly enough violent offenders in prison.

Hold on now... As a point of order, it is not that authorities do not have the ability. They do not have the desire.

Many many LEOs have been interviewed spitting about how Justice is turning them right back out just as quickly as the LEOs put them in.

That is a worthy distinction.