Why Ferguson Matters / Militarization Of Police State
“As long as justice is postponed we always stand on the verge of these darker nights of social disruption.”Martin Luther King Jr. in a speech on March 14, 1968, just three weeks before he was assassinated.
Black people are arrested and incarcerated six times more often than whites.
- An African-American male is sentenced to a prison term that is, on average, 20 to 50 times longer than a white male convicted of the same drug crime.
- More than 2.3 million men in America are in prison, approximately half of them for drug-related crimes. Seventy percent of all men imprisoned are black or Hispanic. Thirty years ago, before the “War on Drugs” was launched, there were only 300,000 people in the American prison system.
- There are 2.7 million children whose fathers or mothers are in prison, on probation, or on parole.
- In many urban areas 80 percent of young men have prison records. These convictions will remain on their records permanently, limiting their voting rights and their ability to find employment. Currently, in all but two states, citizens with felony convictions are permanently or temporarily prohibited from voting. The United States is the only country that permits permanent disenfranchisement of felons even after completion of their sentences.
- The United States now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, higher than Russia, China, and Iran.
- White households have six times the wealth of African-American households.
Allen L Roland
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