Barr Says There Is No Systemic Racism in Policing

[Ish Gibor]

So here we have William P. Barr who is the original author of "The case for more incarceration". He claims that there is no systemic racism in law enforcement, despite of 50% of Black males is being exonerate. What do you think? I will post a few social studies along so this will not just be about anecdotes.

The Case for More Incarceration 1992, NCJ-J39583 U.S. Department of Justice National Institute of Justice 139583

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/139583NCJRS.pdf

Barr Says There Is No Systemic Racism in Policing

Barr Says There Is No Systemic Racism in Policing

William Barr helped establish mass incarceration. Now Trump wants him as attorney general.

As attorney general for George H.W. Bush, Barr was an architect of America’s punitive criminal justice system.

William Barr helped establish mass incarceration. Now Trump wants him as attorney general.


Remarkably ...

”The FBI Has Quietly Investigated White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement

Bureau policies have been crafted to take into account the active presence of domestic extremists in U.S. police departments."

The FBI Has Quietly Investigated White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement

 

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STUDY: 5 Of 10 Falsely Convicted Prisoners Are African American

The University of Michigan Law School and Northwestern University School of Law worked together to compile the data, for which they collected detailed information on 873 exonerations. Nearly 1,200 additional exonerations were identified by the researchers, although there is less data for those.

Out of the false convictions for homicides and sex crimes examined by the Big Ten university researchers, DNA evidence proved to be the kicker. Among the 305 charged with sexual assaults, about two-thirds of exonerations came by DNA testing.

STUDY: 5 Of 10 Falsely Convicted Prisoners Are African American

African Americans are more frequently stopped, searched, arrested, and convicted—including in cases in which they are innocent. The extreme form of this practice is systematic racial profiling in drug-law enforcement. pp. 20-21

http://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/Race_and_Wrongful_Convictions.pdf

New York City to Pay Up to $75 Million Over Dismissed Summonses

“The proposed settlement filed on Monday was seen by lawyers for the plaintiffs as another repudiation of a city policing policy. *It covers at least 900,000 summonses, issued from 2007 to 2015, that were dismissed on grounds of legal insufficiency, which a federal judge later found was “tantamount to a decision that probable cause was presumptively lacking.”

New York City to Pay Up to $75 Million Over Dismissed Summonses

In the Justice Department’s damning, astonishing report on the ingrained, systemic racism in Baltimore’s police department, one tidbit captures the larger picture. It describes an email by a city police supervisor containing a template for officers making trespassing arrests, with blanks to be filled in for date, location, suspect’s name and address — yet, oddly, no prompt for race or gender. Instead, the words “black male” were automatically included.

Washingtonpost

“Laux and Crump said officers used boilerplate language on most of the 133 “no-knock” warrants, of which 110 were for black citizens, Talley obtained through a Freedom of Information request. Laux said he believed fewer than a dozen of those warrants used language other than what he called the “egregious” cut and pasted justification.”

Washingtonpost

“Examining the individual cases revealed that cleared murders were disproportionately more likely to be barred to prosecution if they involved African-American victims or occurred in police districts on the crime-plagued South Side of the city. Closing cases this way not only boosts an agency’s clearance rate, but also means that prosecutors don’t handle as many of the tougher cases that can take a toll on their conviction rates.

“Data recorded in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program show just how widely clearance rates vary across larger police departments. Of the 100 cities reporting the most murders in 2013, 11 cleared less than a quarter of their cases. Meanwhile, eight departments registered clearance rates of 90 percent or more. The national murder clearance rate was 64 percent for 2013.

One statistical complication is that the FBI counts clearances for crimes committed in previous years as part of current-year statistics, while prior annual rates aren’t revised. This is why Fayetteville, N.C., and several smaller departments actually recorded murder clearance rates higher than 100 percent for 2013.”

Case Closed? How 'Solved' Murder Stats Are Misleading

 

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What's actually going on… and what has changed?

How the Trump Administration Undid Obama’s Response to Ferguson The Obama-era reforms could not have stopped George Floyd’s death, but dismantling them sent a clear message to the police.

JUNE 02, 2020
How the Trump Administration Undid Obama’s Policing Reforms

It’s official: the Trump administration will “pull back” from investigating police abuses Obama’s Justice Department uncovered horrible abuses at police departments.

Trump’s attorney general said they’ll “pull back” from such investigations.

Feb 28, 2017
It’s official: the Trump administration will "pull back" from investigating police abuses

Under Obama, the Justice Department aggressively pursued police reforms. Will it continue under Trump?

After the Department of Justice recently issued a scathing report saying police in the country’s third-largest city routinely violated the Constitution by using excessive force against residents, many activists cheered for the inevitable reforms — and federal oversight — they expected to follow.

The findings on Chicago officers set the stage for the city to negotiate a court-enforced agreement with the federal government, called a consent decree, to change how it polices while officials in Washington keep tabs. Police reform advocates applauded a similar pact Justice officials recently announced with Baltimore after the department found that city’s officers discriminated against blacks.

FEB. 5, 2017
Under Obama, the Justice Department aggressively pursued police reforms. Will it continue under Trump?

AG Loretta Lynch unveils scathing report on Chicago PD abuses (13 jan. 2017)



IOP-Inside the Justice Department’s Ferguson Probe featuring Vanita Gupta (2015)

 

[Ish Gibor]

I case some of ya'll don't get it. William P. Barr once again has declared war on the Black community!

 

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For some remarkable reason William Barr sees no wrong here, or at least something odd.

UPDATE: Prosecutors charge 3 more officers in George Floyd’s death