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Date Posted: 14:21:29 04/18/06 Tue
Author: earth tone son
Subject: Re: what human conditions cause higher crime rates?
In reply to: Iron Gauntlet 's message, "Re: what human conditions cause higher crime rates?" on 09:19:37 04/12/06 Wed

>>and which is easier---to attack the causes thereof, or
>>the effects of said conditions?
>
>Shocking FBI study: Blacks are more likely to be
>arrested for hate crimes
>
>Culture/Society Front Page News Keywords: LIBERTARIAN
>PARTY, HATE CRIMES REPORT
>Source: Libertarian Party press release via email
>Published: 2-15-01 Author: Press Release
>Posted on 02/15/2001 15:31:30 PST by oursacredhonor
>WASHINGTON, DC -- African-Americans who thought that
>hate crime laws would protect them against rampaging
>white racists are in for a shock: A new FBI study
>reveals that blacks are proportionally one-and- a-half
>times more likely to be arrested for hate crimes
>against whites than vice versa.
>
>"This new hate crime study is Jesse Jackson's worst
>nightmare," said Steve Dasbach, Libertarian Party
>national director. "It appears that he and other
>African-American leaders have been duped into
>crusading for laws that have condemned a
>disproportionate number of blacks to prison.
>
>"In light of this study, it's fair to ask who poses a
>greater threat to the black community: Racist, violent
>whites -- or oblivious black politicians?"
>
>The hate-crime issue was thrust back into the national
>spotlight on Tuesday when the FBI released its "Hate
>Crime Statistics" report for 1999, which is part of
>the agency's annual Uniform Crime Report.
>
>Law enforcement agencies nationwide reported that
>2,030 whites were arrested for hate crimes against
>blacks, while 524 African- Americans were arrested for
>such crimes against whites.
>
>Adjusting for the fact that blacks make up only 13% of
>the population, blacks were statistically
>one-and-a-half times more likely than whites to face
>prosecution for hate crimes.
>
>"Unfortunately, hate crime laws have boomeranged on
>blacks," said Dasbach. "African-Americans thought that
>hate crime legislation would protect them, but instead
>they're being used as another legal weapon to
>prosecute them.
>
>"And though Americans may assume that politicians who
>write such laws are well-intended, it's obvious that
>for blacks, the road to prison is paved with good
>intentions."
>
>The study also revealed that, shockingly, 87
>African-Americans were arrested in 1999 for hate
>crimes against other blacks, meaning that even among
>same-race crimes, some minorities face heightened jail
>terms because of hate crime laws.
>
>"Hate crimes aren't just for KKK members anymore,"
>said Dasbach. "They are now being applied even to
>same-race crimes -- apparently giving racist police,
>prosecutors, or judges another weapon to use against
>African-Americans."
>
>The solution to this disproportionate application of
>hate crime laws is simple, said Dasbach: Eliminate
>hate crime laws.
>
>"Racist criminals, whether white or black, should be
>punished for their crimes, but hate crime laws aren't
>needed to do that," he said.
>
>"Murder is murder and assault is assault -- regardless
>of whether the criminal was motivated by racist hate,
>generic hate, or pure greed, lust, or envy. People
>should be prosecuted for their actions, not for their
>opinions."
>
>Such a straightforward system of punishing criminals
>for their crimes, not their thoughts, would make the
>criminal justice system more fair, more simple, and
>more effective, said Dasbach.
>
>"Real crimes -- like rape, murder, and robbery --
>don't require police to play a guessing game to
>determine whether they actually occurred, but 'thought
>crimes' do," he said. "For example, how is a police
>officer supposed to determine whether a hypothetical
>black criminal chose a robbery victim because he was
>rich, because he was white, or because he was rich and
>white? And why should it make a difference? People
>should be prosecuted for their actions, not for their
>opinions."
>
>The bottom line is that crimes against a certain
>protected class of citizens should not be treated more
>seriously than crimes against anyone else, said
>Dasbach.
>
>"To do so is un-American, and a violation of equal
>justice under the law," he said. "It also creates the
>ironic situation we now face: Laws that were supposed
>to stop racism apparently have racist consequences --
>making hate crime laws themselves a hate crime against
>African-Americans."

this would explain in part the belief that blacks are more likely to commit crimes than whites. if the system itself isolates "black" crime, then viewed as a whole, it would be "black" crime that is considered the most prominent and therefore the most immediate concern of the american people.

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