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This 6 page paper discusses some of the reasons why blacks are overrepresented in the criminal justice system. It also discusses the phenomenon known as “driving while black.” Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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at a higher rate than anyone else, but the statistics are still surprising, and disturbing, they are so out of kilter with other groups. They are arrested far more often
than whites for the same crime; for instance, blacks and whites use drugs at "approximately the same rate," yet blacks were "arrested for drug offenses at approximately 5 times the
rate of whites during the height of the drug war in 1989" (Schiraldi, 1996). African-Americans in general are imprisoned at "5 times the rate of their counterparts in apartheid south
Africa" (Schiraldi, 1996). In San Francisco, blacks are "imprisoned at 10 times the rate of blacks in South Africa" (Schiraldi, 1996). For a real shock, consider this: "Two-thirds of the
men of color in California were arrested at least once between the ages of 19 and 30" (Schiraldi, 1996). That is a huge number of people who have had a
run-in with the criminal justice system, and all of them are from one demographic group. These appalling statistics go on, revealing that under the so-called "Three Strikes Law," blacks are
charged "17 times the rate of whites in Los Angeles" and "13 times the rate of whites in San Francisco" (Schiraldi, 1996). Finally, although blacks make up only 12% of
Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi, 1996). Clearly there is something very wrong here, but what? Schiraldi suggests that there are many reasons why
some young blacks turn to crime, including poverty, racism, a poor educational system and a lack of decent jobs (1996). Even given these facts, African-Americans are grossly overrepresented in the
criminal justice system, and that indicates that "black men simply do not get a fair shake" in the criminal justice system in California-or anywhere, for that matter (Schiraldi, 1996). One
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