The “resetera” narrative is probably closer to reality than assuming everyone in prison is guilty and experienced an equal and entirely unbiased application of the law.
That's not my position, because the mere existence of a "three strikes" law has zero fucking basis in
law or
justice but is based on - seemingly - whoever came up with it likes baseball.
And even fucking baseball doesn't have that as a hard and fast rule with no room for context, and the stakes in baseball are a lot fucking lower.
My point was not that people in prison all deserve to be in prison - and as pointed out, I was using State figures, because (and I'm happy to be corrected on this if I'm wrong, I'm not american) federal prison is for federal crimes, and the hypothetical 'just smoking a bit of weed before The Man ruined their entire life' example isn't being investigated by federal authorities and going to Club Fed when convicted. Outsider looking in, peoples major problem with the police is not at the
federal level.
It was that incarceration rates make the claim that people are more often executed than arrested false, even when it comes to violent crime.
The fact that violent criminals are often arrested should not be surprising; its so not surprising its not even news. Its literally a statistic.
To claim an armed minority acting threatening to a white protester would definitely get shot and not arrested is mutually exclusive to the concept that minorities get a rougher deal in court.
It's having and eating your ideological cake.
