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Racial Divide Shrinks in US Criminal Justice System TPA TEXAS PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION This paper can www.TheAustinVillager.com be recycled Vol. 47 No. 20 Phone: 512-476-0082 Email: [email protected] December 6, 2019 Report: Racial divide shrinks INSIDE in US criminal justice system BY DON THOMPSON | ASSOCIATED PRESS Preeminent award show partners with BET Network. RAPPIN’ See NAACP Tommy Wyatt Page 2 Problem in the Austin Police Department! Happy 74th Anniversary Mr. At press time, Austin and Mrs. Douglas. Council member Natasha See LOVE Harper-Madison (Place 1) Page 3 was preparing for a press conference that she had FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2013, file photo, inmates walk through the exercise yard at California called for Thursday State Prison Sacramento, near Folsom, Calif. Racial disparities have narrowed across the United morning, prior to the States criminal justice system since 2000, though blacks remain significantly more likely to City Council Meeting. be impacted than whites, according to a study released Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, by the “My proposed nonpartisan Council on Criminal Justice. RICH PEDRONCELLI, FILE AP PHOTO resolution would initiate Double minority a broad investigation of (SACRAMENTO, CA.) - Racial disparities have ons at nine times the rate of white inmates in 2000, no longer racism within the Austin narrowed across the U.S. criminal justice system which dropped to a still disparate six-to-one by contender for WH Police Department,” over 16 years, though black people are still signifi- 2016. The change mostly stemmed from a 30% de- See HARRIS Harper-Madison said. cantly more likely to be behind bars than white cline in the black male imprisonment rate, largely Page 5 She stated that she people, new federal figures show. driven by falling drug crimes. Racial gaps broadly declined in local jails, state — Black women were imprisoned at a rate of believed that the investi- Miller said of Chan. “He prisons, and among people on probation and pa- six for every white inmate in 2000, which fell to two- gation is especially has not been around Re- role, according to the study released Tuesday by to-one by 2016. Fewer black women were being in- necessary in light of last publican channels at all, the nonpartisan Council on Criminal Justice. carcerated for drug crimes, while more white month’s credible alle- but he’s an Asian.” The divide in state imprisonment rates women were imprisoned for violent, property and gations that a former Gov. Greg Abbott dropped for all major crimes but was most pro- drug crimes. assistant Police Chief withdrew his endorse- nounced for drug offenses — a key driving factor — The disparities between Hispanic people openly used the most ment of Miller after the for the racial shift. Black people were 15 times more and white people also shrank across all categories hateful word in the interview was published. likely than white people to be in state prisons for since 2000. english language, not Hours later, Miller re- drug crimes in 2000, but that dropped to five times While falling drug crimes had a big impact on only against elected leased a statement to as likely by 2016, the most recent year available. racial disparity the shift raises questions the study’s officials, but also against the newspaper and Many don’t realize how much the racial gap authors couldn’t answer. a colleague and his other outlets saying he has narrowed, not only in incarceration but in pa- For instance, the start of the study period subordinates. This is in would abandon his re- role and probation, said Adam Gelb, president and comes after the crack cocaine epidemic waned and reference to an alle- election bid and de- chief executive of the politically diverse council that after crime rates dropped from their peak in the gation that a high scribed his remarks as launched in July to seek solutions to problems in early 1990s. ranking officer had used “insensitive and inexcus- the criminal justice system. “Something was going on here well before a racial slure against a able.” “Most people think this is a bad problem that’s (marijuana) legalization started to happen in states fellow officer. “My comments getting worse,” said Gelb, whose group has brought and also before the opioid epidemic, which is much While this press were not made with together governors of both parties, police officials more recent,” Gelb said. “Drug enforcement pat- conference will be held malice nor do they re- and Black Lives Matter organizers. “It turns out it’s terns started to change before both of those things. after we go to press, we flect who I am or who I a bad problem that’s getting a little better, and for It’s clear that somewhere along the way, societal should have complete strive to be,” he said. very complex reasons that we need to understand attitudes toward drugs and drug enforcement information about the Chan and Jetton at a much deeper level.” started to change.” council’s decision on this told the newspaper that Critics contend minorities’ disproportionate in- The nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of Cali- resolution. the remarks show why volvement in the U.S. criminal justice system reflects fornia reported a similar marked drop in the racial The residents of Place the suburban Houston systemic racial bias. Researchers have blamed preju- divide in arrest trends since the 1980s in the nation’s 1 have had some district needs a change. dice by police, prosecutors, judges and juries; racial most populous state but also found that black concerns about how to “It has nothing to differences in crimes; and get-tough sentencing laws people are still far more likely to be arrested than get their issues before do with whether I’m part during the high crime era of the 1980s and ’90s. white people. Harper-Madison. They Korean or anything else, While racial inequity in arrests and incarcera- That’s partly because “there was such stark and charge that she is not it’s just the fact that I’m tions narrowed, the length of prison sentences in- eye-catching and disturbing disparity” in the first always available. We showing up and the creased across all crime types for black people and place, said institute researcher Magnus Lofstrom, can now see how much other communities are partially offset the benefits, according to the report who was not involved in the national study. support she has on this excited about that. I co-authored by Georgia State University professor He said the disparity could be influenced by important resolution. think it’s unfortunate William Sabol, former director of the federal Bu- bias, economic factors or police concentrating on It is very easy to he’s trying to make it a reau of Justice Statistics. high crime areas that also have high minority popu- criticize our elected race thing when it’s re- Among the other findings of the report, which lations. There has been a marked decrease in crime officials. However, it is ally just being willing to is based on numbers from the bureau, the FBI and rates and a recent reduction in the severity of pen- very important that we communicate with any- other national statistics: alties, particularly for drug and property crimes, in show up and support one in the district,” — African American men were in state pris- states like California. them. None of the Jetton said. council members can Texas By Associated Press State Rep. Rick need an Asian to win.” Miller is from Sugar make much needed (AUSTIN, TX) - A Miller since 2013 has “And that’s kind of Land, the home of changes for our lawmaker white Texas Republican represented a suburban racist in my mind, but former Republican U.S. community when they lawmaker who sug- Houston district in Fort anyway, that’s not nec- House Majority Leader are needed. But, we must ends gested his political rivals Bend County, one of the essary, at least not yet,” Tom DeLay. The popula- also remember that we on the ballot were moti- most diverse counites in Miller told the newspa- tion of Fort Bend County have 10-council campaign vated to run against him the U.S. He told the per. is split almost evenly, members and 1-mayor because they’re Asian, Houston Chronicle that He went on to sug- with 35% Anglo resi- on the council. Each one over dropped his reelection one of his primary oppo- gest that a second chal- dents, 24% Hispanic, of them must have the bid Tuesday following a nents, Jacey Jetton, was lenger, Leonard Chan, 21% Asian or other, and support of others in order ‘Asian’ backlash that included running against him in had similar motivations. 20% black, according to to make much needed candidate losing the endorsement 2020 “because he is an “I don’t know, I a 2018 survey by the changes. They also need of the state’s GOP gover- Asian” and decided never met the guy. I have Kinder Institute for Ur- your support. Show up! remarks nor. “that my district might no idea who he is,” ban Research. Page 2 ~ THE VILLAGER/December 6, 2019 THE COMMUNIQUÉ www.theaustinvillager.com announcement was NAACP PARTNERS made by NAACP National Board of Directors Chair- WITH BET man Leon W. Russell, NAACP President and NETWORKS TO CEO Derrick Johnson, President of BET Net- BROADCAST THE works Scott Mills and Ex- ecutive Vice-President, 51st NAACP IMAGE Specials, Music Program- ming & Music Strategy Connie Orlando. 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