UncleJesse Loc: Hazzard Co, GA

Half of all black males are arrested by age 23 (liberal source below).
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/01/07/3130401/study-half-black-males-arrested-age-23/

Activists are calling it the school-to-prison pipeline (Wikipedia summary link below)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School-to-prison_pipeline

The practical solution is the black female teen. If they had a cultural shift where they refuse to date bad boys with a gangster attitude, gangster clothes and an arrest, they could change their world and their future. The problem is their music, clothing and aspirations romanticize the bad boy. The girls believe a gangster boy can get them to the fast track out of poverty. They hear about it in the music lyrics and when a gangster is successful in the community, they see it and the myth propagates. No matter how much time and money is spent on activists counseling and intervening troubled male youth, it will always be trumped by what he knows will get the attention of the black girls.

And you can't blame the black girls. They believe the odds are stacked against them and they're better off with the gangster boy. If he gets arrested, she keeps her bling and car and other stuff. They aren't seriously considering the chances of a black teen getting an educational grant or scholarship. It is 70% according to this black education website:
http://www.jbhe.com/2011/10/a-racial-breakdown-of-financial-aid/

If the activists would put their time and money on revealing the opportunities that the girls can have with the boys that qualify for the plethora of educational grants and scholarships under affirmative action, it could change their world. However, they still have to convince teens that being in the broke middle class is much better than the high stakes gamble of potential wealth from the gangster lifestyle.

Maybe then, the b***k A******n community feelings of being targeted by police could change.

MrEd Loc: Georgia

If they put the effort into legal endeavors the way they do the illegal ones, they would be much better off. True they wouldn't have as much money, but they also would not be in jail. The lure of money is just to great for them.

tom1942

Tom1942 writes:
It's the money. Who wants to work for minimum wage?

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

1. Racial profiling exists
2. If you come from a "black neighborhood" versus a "white neighborhood" you will be arrested for something.
3. If arresting is the norm for you, it's no big deal, so your behavior escalates, since "punishment" is the norm.

How 'bout the police arrest people for legitimate crimes, loitering is not a crime...I do it all the time.

PoppaGringo Loc: Muslim City, Mexifornia, B.R.

So do I, but I do it in my pool or patio.

Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

I have read many studies on how many b****s go to jail. I think the jails themselves may be a problem. Within the US, jail systems are not tough enough. Many jails are more or less a social club and an educational process for those that are already predisposed to criminal activities. Jails offer free housing, free meals, access to computers and social media found on the NET, gyms with trainers, libraries, television, and an environment where people can just open their mouths and yell/scream and act out their hatred. Plus each person that enters the system will wind up with a tattoo announcing that they are angry, bad, and a sign to anyone else they are not to be messed with when they return to the streets. If you add it up, over $52 million dollars a year goes to prisons. In Maricopa jails, only 1 percent of all convicts return to jail. No one wants a revisit to that jail system and crime is at an all time low in this district. A few of the reasons:

Maricopa County Sherriff Jo Arapaho is a tough sheriff and uses jail as a punishment rather than a rehab center and vacation from the streets or escape from those that have the criminal on their list. Rehab is offered near the end of the sentence, but it is not the pity party or codling that many receive in other states.

This sheriff has:

Trimmed jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

He stopped smoking and p**** magazines in the jails. Took away their weights. Cut off all but "G" movies.

He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects.

Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.

He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again, but limited channels to only the Disney channel and the weather channel. When asked why the weather channel he replied, so they will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs.

He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value.
When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."

He bought Newt Gingrich' lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails.

When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.

With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.

On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before.

Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks. "It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 year. "It's inhumane."

Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic.

He said Wednesday, that he told all of the inmates, "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!"

If all jails were this uncomfortable and served as a way to punish rather than a vacation from crime, many would never want to return. Change the romance about going to jail, make it a unwanted experience, then jails will be the last place a person would want to go. As long as we keep funding cable television, law libraries, complete gyms, new clothing........all the comforts of home in a social club educational environment for how to commit crimes, the problem will remain.

I do not agree with the "girls need to stop associating with bad boys" as a way to curb the appeal to jails. When I was young, a bad boy was one who had long hair or drove a motorcycle. Rock n roll was for bad boys and girls, and staying out after 10 pm was breaking curfew.

To really break the trend, it has to start with parents becoming parents and not their kid's best friend. When parents again start teaching right from wrong in the home, establishing and enforcing curfews, then the trend will change. After a criminal act is done, make jails punishment. Simple changes that will not cost each and every person thousands of dollars to encourage breaking the law.

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

Or allow more women to have a******ns....it's a business decision.

250$ a******n versus $250,000 to house a prisoner.

dennisimoto Loc: Washington State (West)

Let's hear it for Sheriff Joe!!! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Gene H

Police do not target black people untill they hang out a target for them.If you want to be targeted,hang one out.If you want to have piece and blend in,do the right things.It always pays off to be an example of good things.

UncleJesse Loc: Hazzard Co, GA

That is so true...have you noticed that the lure of money seems to be stronger to those in poverty? I'm not saying folks in the broke middle class or the wealthy don't do illegal things for the thrill of gaining more money rather, I've noticed sometimes the poorest seem to place too much emphasis on it as though it will solve all their troubles. It's like some of them have their mind on money all the time, will not have enough money to pay the rent yet will justify jewelry, latest electronic entertainment equipment and fancy cars. A guy I know volunteered to distribute food to poor homes during Christmas season and stated that while most did appear poor, there were many that had nicer cars and TVs than he could afford.

tom1942

Tom1942 Writes:

You don' t know what you are talking about, Dummy Boy. I patrolled an all black sector in a large metropolitan city. If I were a r****t, I'd go nuts surrounded by 10,000 b****s. As it was I never locked up anyone, black, white, or alien without due cause. In any case, it would have to be a conspiracy. First need to explain the arrest to a supervisor, once that you need to get past detectives who are so overehelmed they are stuck at their desks (unlike TV) hardly have time to investigate anything. In other words your arrest must be water proof. Then there is the preliminary hearing; then trial after that. As far as the peple in my sector, they understood that if thry mrssrd up..........I did not become a policeman to do social work.

Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

I have another solution that you will do the Liberal response to, that is to create reservations for b****s, run by b****s, policed by b****s, much like reservations for Native Americans. Allow them to h**e, k**l, terrorize, and otherwise misbehave to their hearts content. In this nation within a nation, they could have their own hospitals and murder each other or their children because it would be their laws. This does away with racial profiling, overcrowded prisons, supporting them from cradle to grave. Just as we do not force a Native American to live on reservations, we would not force a black to uproot. However, for those that elect to remain outside of the Res, they would be required to abide by all laws and rules that all American citizens have to live by. Gone would be special treatment and of course the death of the Democrat Party.

Oh, before you ask. The Liberal Response is: When in trouble, when in doubt, run in circles scream and shout and should that fail, blame white people.

UncleJesse Loc: Hazzard Co, GA

Interesting insight of what is driving behavior but I'm not sure society at large can justify some sort of get out of jail free card to avoid legit arrests based on your neighborhood. Maybe instead these neighborhoods need a community council the police can turn over loitering cases and some other cases better handled by neighborhood aldermen than muninciple courts.

UncleJesse Loc: Hazzard Co, GA

I think the influence of girls is far above any negative reinforcement a sherif can think up. You might want to reconsider the motivations of boys besides, there aren't many traditional two parent homes in these situations.

America Only Loc: From the right hand of God

Nice...but even better would be mandated castration. Lets end their pathetic life cycle.