[lbo-talk] Hate Crime and Law Enforcement Bias (was What is genocide?)

Yoshie Furuhashi critical.montages at gmail.com
Sun May 7 09:09:36 PDT 2006


On 5/7/06, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> That said, the untrustworthiness of the capitalist state and the problem
> of the slippery slope (the need to protect the instrumental value of
> free speech) make it an iffy thing to embody that difference in criminal
> law.

Racially motivated selective law enforcement in the USA is such that even in hate crime statistics Blacks become disproportionately represented as _offenders_: "Law enforcement agencies identified 7,145 known offenders in 7,649 bias-motivated incidents. (See Table 1.) Of the known offenders, 60.6 percent were white and 19.7 percent were black. Groups made up of individuals of various races (multiple races, group) accounted for 5.1 percent of known offenders. Persons whom law enforcement identified as Asian or Pacific Islanders made up 1.0 percent, and American Indian or Alaskan Natives comprised 0.7 percent of known offenders. Nearly 13 percent (12.9) of known offenders were of an unknown race. (Based on Table 9.)" (<http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2004/section1.htm>). Those -- including Blacks -- who think that hate crime legislations are in Black interests are probably mistaken.

-- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>



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