It was not me who brought the small crimes up it was the response before mine. As far as blacks being the most involved in drugs, I'm going to the FBI CRIME data chart in 2017 according to drug abuse violation ;
White 70.4
Black 27.1
FBI CRIME data chart in 2018 according to the drug abuse violation;
White 70.6
Black 27.0
So the small crime that were mentioned didn't even include drugs it was small crimes like stealing purses. Now what was done with the proceeds we are never going to know.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/tables/table-43

Like I said earlier the location and motivation of the people committing the crimes are a constant. It could cover almost anything just like you mentioned.
If small crimes in your location were for drugs other location it could be for the grocery list or drugs. People shouldn't be painted with the same brush, example when it said that all people who support Trump are racists. A percentage maybe but the rest may not. There were three types of voters voting in that election the only Trumpers, anyone but Hillary and those who wanted change. Crimes committed can be for survival. If you are so hooked on drugs that you can't live without your next hit it can considered survival.

Like I said earlier the location and motivation of the people committing the crimes are a constant. It could cover almost anything just like you mentioned.
If small crimes in your location were for drugs other location it could be for the grocery list or drugs. People shouldn't be painted with the same brush, example when it said that all people who support Trump are racists. A percentage maybe but the rest may not. There were three types of voters voting in that election the only Trumpers, anyone but Hillary and those who wanted change. Crimes committed can be for survival. If you are so hooked on drugs that you can't live without your next hit it can considered survival.

While you seem to be "understanding" where drug addicted criminals are concerned, I am not. Most of them come from environments in which they've seen first hand what happens when you mess with these drugs, be it crack, heroin, meth, whatever, and without anybody twisting their arms, they try them anyway and continue to use them until they are addicted.

I have no problem with any moron who wants to destroy his or her life via drug or alcohol addiction -- I do have a major problem with those who victimize others they don't even know in order to feed their habits, making these Innocents co-dependents of habits they aren't stupid enough to have acquired.

These addicts introduce tragedy of various kinds into the lives of people who have absolutely nothing to do with them or their habits.

Democrats are always screaming about justice and claiming victimhood for these very real victimizers while completely ignoring the damage they perpetrate on their very real victims, who almost never get any justice.

In short, I look at sympathizing for the druggies in question while devoting what amounts to zero time to their victims, a trait of liberal Democrats going back decades, as profoundly convoluted.

Decsions made do have their consequences, If you are in a position to decide on what happens to someone because of their decsions you should not paint everyone with the same brush. To often the color of the skin is seen before the problem is looked at. Yes people do make decsions that will lead to collateral damage that should be taken into account when the bill comes due. How often does it happen that the results given are not given equally? If you commit crimes your skin color should not be taken into account.
Is it possible that when some one knows by example where a life will lead. Was that life style chosen because of free choice or was it caused because of the treatment of the skin color? Example a person is put into jail because he/she committed a crime that it didn't merit jail time. That time spent is now on their record. At the present there are a lot of single parent families but people need social contact. That same person is met they appear ok, he/she treats everyone with respect but because of earlier record of jail time they can't get a job. What does the young one see?

Yes people do make the decsion to use on their own because the effects are there it allows for a suspended life where things don't matter , or sell because the quick money is a hell of a lure.

Not that you'd acknowledge even if you noticed, but since Trump became our president, he has worked hard for and made great strides into prison reform, he has begun programs to bring more businesses and jobs to poor black communities and allocated more federal subsidies to black universities. This is all stuff Obama never cared about - for him it was just lip service based on race politics intended to keep the black vote while getting it on the cheap.

That said, personal choices count no matter what color you are or what economic background you come from. I know plenty of blacks who grew up in "disadvantaged" circumstances and, rather than waste their lives doing drugs or taking the criminal route to obtain money, took responsibility for themselves, studied, worked hard and to this day live normally and independently of taxpayer largesse.

Unfortunately, too many young blacks drink the Democrat Kool-Aid® and end up permanent wards of the government, alternating between the public dole and prison unless they're killed early by street violence or drugs.

I see it all the time when I go into Santa Monica or downtown L.A., scores of young black men sitting around during prime daytime hours smoking dope and blasting rap music instead of being out looking for work. I'd be willing to bet that 9 in 10 of them collects some form of relief and probably food stamps as well.

The tired story that because most of them probably have criminal records and therefore can't get we work is B.S.; I have chatted with homeless men in the L.A. area who manage to to find labor jobs every day, some paying well above the minimum wage, and none of these casual labor jobs comes with the hiree's background as an issue. Two such homeless men were black.

The problem is that the Democrats, needing the black vote, believe that the best way to retain it is to throw as many obstacles to independence and success in front of the blacks as they can, then blame "racism" and "white privilege" while lyingly assuring them that "we're the only ones who empathize with you and the only ones who have your back."

It's utterly despicable that a political party is so bloodless and soulless that it can knowingly keep nearly an entire race living in tragic circumstances by lying to them purely to achieve political power.