[quote=ASTA]
Completely irrelevant.Also, explain why first time minority offenders receive harsher sentences and fines than their white peers on average. Remember to cite your sources.
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Trip post. Supposing I am the racist justice system, wouldn't I want minorities to suffer more? Since most violent crime is along racial lines, wouldn't I give minority gangbangers and wife beaters light sentences so they can go back to killing each other, but give white killers and abusers heavy sentences?