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Comment Re:He still plead guilty to something ... (Score 1) 219

Cases going through the court system faster, due to guilty pleas.

Which I suspect isn't worth it since that it results in guilty people getting lighter charges and innocent people pleading guilty to avoid the chance long jail terms (we all know innocent people get convicted - that people are later exonerated is proof of that).

Comment Re:The wrong problem (Score 1) 1128

So what?

Do you really think that the police will ignore a 911 call about a robbery because the caller wasn't an owner/employee of the store? How long do you propose they spend trying to verify that the caller is an owner/employee before sending police on every 911 call involving a store? And is that only for store robberies, should they wait until they've verified who the caller is on all 911 calls before doing anything?

Comment Re:Education versus racism (Score 1) 481

By the csv file for 2012 avalable at: http://www.nyclu.org/content/s...

57.9% of (black|black-hispanic) people who were stopped were arrested.
65.7% of the people whose race was recorded and it wasn't black or black-hispanic who were stopped were arrested.

61.7% of stops were of black or black-hispanic people.

So they stop the people who are less likely to be arrested more often. So where are your stats?

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