Reply #47: Blacks do not committ more felonies, consider white collar crime

[ultraist]

White collar crime costs our society far more than does blue collar crime. But, thanks to INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM, white collar criminals, (generally committed by white businessmen) often go unpunished.

Additionally, Blacks are more likely to get caught and the punishments are more severe.

http://www.nul.org/stateofblackamerica.html

Another disconcerting trend is the growing disparity in the social justice arena. The status of African Americans
fell from 73 percent to 68 percent as compared to whites when measuring equity in sentencing, enforcement,
imprisonment and victimization. In other categories of the Equality Index, the status of blacks versus whites in
health is 73 percent, education 77 percent and civic engagement is 1.08 percent respectively.

Social Justice: 2005 showed the equality gap between whites and blacks in the criminal justice system
is worsening, going from 73 percent to 68 percent. Blacks are three times more likely to become
prisoners once arrested and a black person’s average jail sentence is six months longer than a white’s
for the same crime; 39 months versus 33 months.