Is the Criminal-Justice System Racist?

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Is the Criminal-Justice System Racist? by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal Spring 2008

The favorite culprits for high black prison rates include a biased legal system, draconian drug enforcement, and even prison itself. None of these explanations stands up to scrutiny. The black incarceration rate is overwhelmingly a function of black crime. Insisting otherwise only worsens black alienation and further defers a real solution to the black crime problem.

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