[quote=So Boerd]
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?
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No; as the racist justice system (presumably in modern America) you'd see minorities of so-and-so background as threats to the majority. You can't exactly throw their asses on a ship back across the sea, so your next solution to keep them from further infecting the country with their filth is by means of imprisonment.