Criminal Justice
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Career Criminal Learns His White Privilege Extends to Kicking Black Toddlers and Bonding Out (for Free) Hours Later
I’ve always maintained that unlike Kanye’s MAGA hat, White Privilege is an actual superpower. While not quite invisibility or flight, it bestows its possessors with the unique ability to circumvent suspicion, culpability, or other negative experiences that people of color routinely endure. It also includes a wide assortment of systemic benefits and advantages that I…
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Instead of Waiting for the Ball to Drop, Utah Implements Strictest DUI Law in the Country One Day Before New Year’s Eve
For Utah residents looking to spend their New Year’s Eve getting white girl wasted, a hangover just officially became the least of their concerns. Because Sunday morning, a new law went into effect that drops the state’s blood alcohol content limit from 0.08 to 0.05—the strictest DUI standard in the entire country. Happy New Year!…
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A Pregnant Woman Was Found Dead in a Mississippi Jail After Complaining About Stomach Pains. Her Family Has Yet to See Her
A pregnant mother of two was found dead in a Madison County, Mississippi jail cell sometime last week after complaining to jail officials of stomach pains, her family says. Now, the family of 37-year-old Lanekia Michelle Brown is trying to piece together what happened to her in a death they deem “very suspicious.” “We talked…
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Driver Tries to Finesse Tolls by Hiding Plates with Chicken Sticker. He’s My New Hero
There are times when the media will be reporting on a crime story, and as we sit there taking in all the details of the crime—whether horrific or just stupid in nature—we are saying a silent prayer that the suspect is not black. Don’t bother lying. We all have done it. We all do it.…
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Money Bail Might Be the Most Racist, Immoral Part of America’s Criminal Injustice System
When listing all of the problems in America’s justice system, the racial disparities are too numerous to count, the facts, alone are astounding. The rate of marijuana use is about the same for blacks and whites (although more blacks say they have never used marijuana), but blacks are more than three times more likely to…