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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What happened to the cop's post?  Or am I losing track of threads?[/quote]

I'm not a cop but I am a newspaper journalist with many years on the police beat and lots of ride alongs. There are plenty of bad cops but most are not. Here's what I observed during citations, etc. Black kids and some Latinos tend to mouth off and resist. White kids and some minorities who cooperate and show respect for the officers often get tickets or citations and many go to jail for open container, drugs etc. The white kids tend to be picked up by concerned parents and grandparents who bail them out and are POed at them, not the cops. The black kids often have trouble reaching anyone who can/will come post bail and those who do are often represented by elders who blame the whole situation on racial bias. 
I've also spent a lot of time covering courts. Black kids are usually represented by public defenders and are MUCH more likely to do time in lockup than whites, who are often paying for good private lawyers. I see the broken court and prison system as far more of a problem than street policing.[/quote]

I was reading along and nodding my head until I got to the last sentence. How is our court and prison system broken and how do they cause any of the aforementioned issues?[/quote]

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