379) Mass Incarceration 2; Reasons for Racial Percent Differences
July 24, 2017
Cultural and historical differences may be largely responsible for
the variegated incarceration rate regarding race. White culture was a more or
less secure majority culture with established roles. Except for the affect of
increased national drug use, the percent of white people incarcerated should
have stabilized decades ago. It should not have increased because the percent
of non-whites of the U.S. population has increased, unless one thinks that
increasing non-whites should catalyze increased white crime.
Hispanics were an external proletariat illegally in millions of
cases entering the U.S.A. to form an internal proletariat. The cultural
differences of non-established, less sedentary populations in criminal behavior
compared to sedentary, established populations are notable. One might wonder
too, why Mexico has a lower incarceration rate and a far higher murder rate,
and if that may mean that the U.S.A. can afford to process more people through
the criminal corrections systems than Mexico, whereat direct eye for an eye
extra-judicial justice may be somewhat more frequent.
Black Americans had the social integration problems following the
end of the Jim Crowe era. Then problems developed for all American men during
the same period when the old-style industrial economy was outsourced overseas.
High unemployment rates made a generation of black youth half unemployed or
underemployed, while illegal alien workers watered down the value of wage labor
in the U.S.A.
Real wages adjusted for inflation have not changed for white men
since the early 1970s while affirmative action has changed the employment and
social landscape in the U.S.A. There were far fewer good paying industrial or
men’s jobs as time rolled by for men of any race in the U.S.A. With a couple
generations of white male babies aborted while far fewer black or Hispanic
babies were aborted, there were social structural and composition differences
between populations of the three races as well. Smaller families can invest
more in education generally.
An unstable tends to settle down while the opposite case exists
with immigrants regarding crime. Immigrants can bring bad as well as good to
receiving nations. The modern influences of Islam, godless atheism and the
decrease of Christian values in addition to financial sophistry and the
over-concentration of wealth, as well as global stress on the ecosphere have
changed the way people think of people. The value of human life may be transitioning
to commoditization. Politicians cannot think much beyond Wall Street and class
electorate issues, much less comprehend corrections reform.
Families are an endangered item especially in a nation with legal
homosexual marriage. One would wish that healthy nuclear families in a good
community were the norm, yet that probably wouldn't be achieved by letting
violent criminals and dope sellers live on the corner.
Some of the children may be better off with the gangster away from
home ironically. With a better corrections systems it might be possible to
restore criminals to their families who may have already divorced (more than
50% of marriages end in divorce).
If the criminal is away from home, he is also away from his
victims (in his own family or down the block). That can be some comfort to the
victims.
Children should have better education in the U.S.A. An equivalent
of Coursera for kids might be useful. Even Google translator can translate
spoken words into any foreign language. How cool is that?
In my opinion voting rights should be restored seven years after
sentence is served if there are no more felony convictions. One should not lose
voting rights forever for a felony conviction, yet the right to vote should
fairly be suspended for seven years, as drunk driving can revoke driving rights
for some time after sentence is served for example.
If people cannot obey the laws, the state has no interest in
letting such individuals vote.
One in Ten Black Males are in Jail...consequences...
Maybe a reduction in crime happens when violent criminals and drug
sellers are taken off the streets, yet also great cost to the states as the
price for keeping one guy in jail costs $30,000 to $40,000 annually and what,
56 billion dollars per annum in total?
Obviously there should be a far better corrections system than
presently exists that is less time consuming and that has less than a 10%
recidivism rate.
Half of the federal prisoners are in for drug offenses. Those guys
not only poison the people and corrupt society spreading rot and incompetence
and even brain damage to their victims, they unfairly make a profit that mocks
those honest and poor free enterprise tradesmen already being bumped out by
illegal aliens.
Presumably half of the black males in jail are there for violent
crimes. People that perp violent crimes are often repeat offenders.
The last 40 years is more or less the period of desegregation and
affirmative action, increased and pervasive dope use and decline of quality
math scores...trouble in social change in river city. One could let them all
out to become Catholic priests and nuns of course, yet they might not.
Twenty million illegal aliens helped increase Hispanic crimes in
the U.S.A. Cell phone and computers helped gangs organize crime across the border
and in cities from Chicago to Mexico City. The Clinton and Obama
administrations had a spike in criminal activities.
The widespread use of illegal drug caused a lot of crime and
minorities were traffickers and victims of that at the same time. The degradation
of social values due to moral relativism changed the way people think and
behave, then a great deal of post Vietnam and post-Jim Crowe skepticism created
a vast counterculture that was disruptive of traditions and stability
domestically for reasons good and bad.
The lack of moral leadership (Al Gore- no presiding moral
authority) encouraged certain kinds of crime and gang activity. The Mexican
drug wars had some spillover into the U.S.A. as the U.S.A. is the primary buyer
of dope for decadent Democrats.
The post-Cold war era of globalism made those that enjoy free
e-dollars from the Federal Reserve more inclined to just lock up and forget the
incarcerated rather than correct them. Congress can't even get Obamacare to
reach the very poor and homeless interstate class of Americans while no
sedentary, middle class kind of American missed out.
Law enforcement and evidence gathering has more camera videos of
criminals that jurors are unsympathetic with. Hence long sentences and tough
get release (especially if they proclaimed innocence).
I think people discriminate as much or more against those labeled
with a mental diagnosis. If one pleads mea culpa as a 'mental' one may be
employed, yet then tracked and pre-destined to be treated as a mental 'psych
nigger' the remainder of one's life. Those unfortunate enough to be felons and
mental would be received by society as 'the criminally insane'...a tough label
to live with.
380) On Mass Incarceration post 1
July 24, 2017
First of all, I think there is no social contract amongst citizens
in the U.S,A,. That's a more French, Rousseauian notion. The U.S.A. has a
constitution and laws that one should obey. As a free citizen they may choose
not to, and then should expect correction rather than punishment for violating
those laws.
Mass incarceration is simply a concatenation of all of the
individuals that have broken laws and should be undergoing correction rather
than punishment. Those that cannot obey the laws of the United States, such as
illegal entry, ought to expect correction and swiftly.
Justice is really a matter of accurate determination of the guilt
or innocence of an individual in breaking a particular law. Injustice obviously
would be to convict someone innocent and vice versa... Justice is not about politics
and quantification of race or gender regarding those convicted so long as the
laws are just. If it were not so women could be regarded as unfairly advantaged
since they have such a low incarceration number in comparison to men.
If the correction system has failed and costs society a tremendous
amount of money and needless human suffering, and I think it has, then it
should be changed. Putting criminals into a concentration facility together
plainly is a silly way to go about training people not to be criminals. It is
more of a filing and security approach for disposing of inconvenient items
(people).
In a godless atheist society that scoffs at Christian values, and
with the black prison population having a large number of Muslims it is likely
that the religious criterion should be restrained and applied only moderately.
Christianity itself is under attack and slow takeover by secular values. If
mercy for the incarcerated means to not provide correction, that is consistent
with a corrupt society.
What about Racial Disparities in Incarceration Rates?
Maybe the evidence gathering technology progress allows more
accurate determination of guilt or innocence. It is possible that with the
extreme mobility of people in America today incarceration is regarded as a way
to assure that perpetrators don't just travel somewhere else to find new
opportunity for crime.
With more female judges they may want to send more males to jail.
Statistics would determine if that speculation has validity.
Maybe a disposable consumer-oriented society wants to dispose of
criminals quickly and take them out of circulation, as one might remove
counterfeit currency. Of course the Federal Reserve issues a lot of free money
to big banks, and some regard that as a moral equivalent of counterfeiting for
the benefit of the 1%. So that line of speculation may be inaccurate.
Some might think that whites have lower crime rates because they
are more established and sedentary than immigrants from Latin America, many of
whom are illegal aliens or first-generation native born with dual citizenship.
Also, white women aborted a couple generations of healthy white male boys, so
the white population is older and less wild than Hispanics whom have more
new-culture socialization issues.
Whites just don't have the gangs that they used to many decades
ago while Hispanics have a rich gang culture, and blacks invented modern
gangsta rap culture (I don't know about the socialization relationship of that
to criminal behavior, yet it isn't a bar mitzvah sort of approach to things).
If there are racial disparities in incarceration rates one might
wonder why. One might ask if the temporal rate of incarceration should be the
same among any races normally, when the cultural origins of the races differ
historically.
Should an established race in a given society that comprises a
majority historically that has worked through its social structure evolution
reasonably well have a higher or lower incarceration or social disconformity
rate than an emergent race that was previously not established in the majority
culture?
One might wonder about abstract explanations for historical and
cultural evolution and the phenomenon of mass incarceration without considering
the geographic and population density factors.
Since Rowe vs. Wade white women have aborted two or three
generations; tens of millions, of young white males (and females) whom might
have committed more crimes while Hispanics-especially immigrants, and blacks,
have had far fewer abortions. New white female judges may not be so reluctant
to sentence males of any race before the bench to prison.
One might wonder, if in a different social configuration, if women
might not have equal incarceration rates as males such that there was no
disparity. If the U.S. Supreme Court has three justices that are female, while
incarcerated females are 123 per 100,000 and males 1352 per 100,000 can that be
regarded as efficient judicial gender representation?
Incarceration rates may more or less parallel high school
graduation rates as well as actual learning, I don't know. Culture matters, and
a less intellectual culture in an era where good non-college educated jobs not
designed for more passive, sedentary female workers are in decline creates a
possibility of more idle and unemployed time for young males who may perpetrate
crimes. Dope use also affects people in inner cities and they may more readily
commit crimes because of the high population density that they could avoid if
they were living in a less populous society and could be degenerate without
troubling anyone.
Blacks in the post-Jim Crowe era had more challenges for evolving
into new and independent economic ventures for a variety of reason, while
immigrant Hispanics also shared the characteristic I am considering here; the
lack of social stability.
In the Vietnam conflict there was a great difference in the
performance and unit cohesiveness to discipline under stress among various
units during different periods of the conflict.
The mostly volunteer army that existed during the early 1960s had
entered service during the Eisenhower era of the 50s and were highly
disciplined and performed well. The later conscript army that followed their
discharge had more discipline and performance problems, the worst being the
Americal division formed just for the war.
It
had no unit military history and had great discipline problems including the Me
Lai massacre of Lt. Calley's unit. Units with military tradition have more
discipline, new units, especially guerilla units and new militias like those of
Serbia and ISIS tend toward war crimes.
