Originally posted on 08/26/2013:

^^^ Bettilimbroke - you are muddying the waters like your friend Cgold with misinformed, misleading, race baiting jibberish.

I'm going to let you in on a secret... The 2 main reasons we have such high crime rates among blacks are Ronald Reagan and Len Bias. Both of them were most responsible for the "War on Drugs". That war in the 80's - 2000's, incarcerated hundreds of thousands of black men (mostly) and woman. By putting these men in prison (when they should have been in medical treatment) it not only dissolved the black family structure but you now labeled these folks as felony criminals when the majority were non violent. So a guy is entered in the prison system. He learns how to become a criminal. He learns about violence first hand. What do you think happens when he is released? He has no chance of a job, no chance of making anything of himself. But he learned criminal ways by being incarcerated. That guy is now your worst enemy.

The US incarcerates more people per capita than any other nation. Most of these people detained could have been rehabilitated but there's no money in helping people. The real money is in the prison system. I could give you a history lesson on prisons.

Do you really think blacks and Hispanics commit more crime than white people? That's what the media wants you to think because it fuels their agenda. White people are just as prone to commit crimes in the same environment. It's all about environment. Those same white people doing drugs in the 80's/90's were often not searched, many times let go by white police officers and did less time or no time using far more dangerous drugs that were not even prosecuted in most courts.

Add to all that the following...

Individuals of color have a disproportionate number of encounters with law enforcement, indicating that racial profiling continues to be a problem. A report by the Department of Justice found that blacks and Hispanics were approximately three times more likely to be searched during a traffic stop than white motorists. African Americans were twice as likely to be arrested and almost four times as likely to experience the use of force during encounters with the police.

I could give you example after example of blacks being arrested for bullshit. I'm a UF fan and one of our players got arrested recently for barking at a police dog. The arresting officer then tried everything to get him to resist by shoving him, putting on the cuffs too tight and hitting him during the arrest (it's all on video). Another player got arrested for throwing a sandwich at someone. If you saw those videos, you would laugh and not think it was serious but this shit goes on everyday. You now add an arrest record to 2 guys for bullshit. You now label him a bad character. If he doesn't make it to the NFL, what do you expect him to do when people turn him down for jobs because you pigeon holed him?

Talk to some of these guys in the inner city. Ask them if they were ever stopped and frisked for no reason. Continue to treat people like animals and they will lash out. We are reaping what we have sown. We have disregarded thousands of people that are so poor, hungry and desperate. What do you think happens when these people have no hope.

Sure build more prisons. Increase the punishment. All you're doing is putting a band aid on the problem and it cost a lot more money.