Unequal Sentences for Blacks and Whites

As a result of decades of research, the criminal court ruled that black defendants are more severe than whites. However, the Sarasota Herald Tribune has done an amazing new investigation into the Florida state judgment gap and broadened our understanding of this problem in two important ways.

When African Americans committed the same crime under the same circumstances, it became clear that the time to be imprisoned at twice the proportion of whites with the same criminal record increased. It also shows how the prejudice of individual judges and prosecutors may encourage unjust verdict.

The Florida State legislature has been working to solve this problem for decades. For example, in the 1980s, we tried to change the judgment policy everywhere by preparing a judgment guide. Today, the prosecutor determines the defendants' score to determine the minimum punishment required by the law, based on the seriousness of the crime, the situation of the arrest, and whether they have been convicted in advance.

In a fair system black and white respondents who received the same score according to this formula will spend the same time across the bar. However, Herald Tribune revealed that the judge ignored these guidelines, sentenced to 60% of felony incidents, 68% of serious primary crimes, and 45% of thefts to black defendants. In the three-layer felony incident - the most serious and widespread felony classification - the White judge in Florida state sentenced black defendants 20% more sentence than the white accused.

Drug war had a particularly serious impact on black defendants. Police are targeting their community, people are in the trial system, and judges are more difficult to act among black offenders. According to reports nearly half of the counties in Florida condemned illegal Americans and gave more than twice the time to convict white people.

Prosecutors and counsel have begun to accept this racist discipline as a fact of life. Herald Tribune cited two teenagers on suspicion of armed robbery in the same county. With the consent of the judges, prosecutors and counsel attorneys ignored the guidelines for white juvenile sentencing and reached an agreement on probationary conspiracy without imprisonment. According to the guidelines, a black boy was sentenced to four years imprisonment and the lawyer said to him that this is the best deal he can get.

The Florida system is causing racial persecution that is reminiscent of Jim Crow's era. Reform is obviously necessary for the nation's judgment structure. Part of the solution may be that the court periodically publish a public report detailing the judgment of individual judges and explaining the relationship with the guidelines. This will be the focus of attention. It is clearly a kind of worsening cheating.

Even the same law that applies to all people is inequality. Many social scientists are aware of what ACLU has discovered, "Blacks and Latin American criminals sentenced in state courts and federal courts are much higher than in white-run criminals of comparable status Face rate and receive longer sentences than Caucasian ......................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................................................... ...................................................................................................... However, when the law is inherently unfair What should we do, if the law itself is immoral, how do we respect the rule of law? By definition, taking these laws in violation of such laws Tighten up It is illegal. The fight against slavery is illegal. It is illegal to work with Indians. It is illegal to marry outside of your game.

People in color, especially black men, are faced with longer sentences than white non-Hispanic men. According to the US judgment committee, from 2007 to 2011, the sentence of a black man was 19.5% longer than the white man. In addition, black men are unlikely to accept a ruling rather than being convicted at 25% of the judgment's guidelines. Colored people are more likely to be searched than Caucasians while traffic is stopped. According to nationwide survey data, blacks and Hispanics are three times more likely to be searched by Caucasians. Search for blacks with Caucasian with 6% of traffic sites, 7% of Spanish, only 2% of the time