zero tolerance

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 02:26 PM 4/26/00 -0400, Doug quoted:
>[Another take on zero tolerance...]
>
>New York Times - April 26, 2000
>Similarly, white youths charged with violent offenses are 
>incarcerated for an average of 193 days after trial, but blacks are 
>incarcerated an average of 254 days and Hispanics are incarcerated an 
>average of 305 days.

So is to be done to fight that injustice?  Abolish penalty for violent
crime altogether, as the Loonie Left seems to suggest, or bring the
sentences given to white criminals to the level served by their black and
hispanic cronies?

wojtek