RazorbackPirate
Well-Known Member
Why can't we just look at the crimes on the books and develop mandatory sentencing guidelines with no mitigating circumstances applied to lessen the sentence, etc. You're found guilty of X, your sentence is Y. End of story. Take a fresh look at everything. Some sentences will end up more lenient than the most lenient that had been given, some sentences will end up more severe than the most severe that had been given, the majority will be somewhere in between.What I have been asking you is not whether or not there is a disparity ... But rather, what you intend to do about it?
If a white man commits the same crime as a black man ... And they receive the same punishment ... Should that punishment be what the white man had been getting, or what the black man had been getting before you got rid of the disparity?
You cannot answer the question with a little of both, or the cases should be judged individually ... Because they are judged individually now and that is not good enough for you, and you are comparing them to each other in order to obtain a disparity.
Also ... By what metric do you intend to determine the severity of individual crimes not directly related to the same victim, perpetrator and conditions?
What is unjust, immoral and racist about a non-white being charged by a non-white prosecutor, tried in front of a non-white judge, and majority non-white jury ... And what do the disparity numbers look like when those convictions are thrown out of the mix?
At the same time to make it fair, let's clean up the charging guidelines as well, removing the enhancements and discretionary tack on charges. Let's also eliminate plea bargaining for a lesser charge. If the prosecution makes the charge, their only option is to take it to trial. If the defendant is charged, they have no choice but to face the charges at trial.
Way to much wiggle room and BS enhancements, etc. have crept into the system that allows too many players in the system to practice soft racism, faking evidence, stacking charges, then coercing false testimony to force a plea deal and 'take the win'. There is a reason lady justice wears a blindfold. How about we get back to that as the standard, then we don't have to worry about one race being more or less unfairly targeted or had disparate outcomes.