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In article <GREENEG.95Sep21170114@dali.cs.unc.edu>, greeneg@dali.cs.unc.edu (George Greene) writes:
|> In article <DF96Aq.2I9@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> george@nccu.edu (george conklin) writes:
|>  :     You are right, Dave.  If this fellow were African American,
|>  :   he would be in jail until the DNA results came in.
|>
|> Hell, if he were African-American, even the DNA results might
|> not get him out of jail.  Even another person confessing to
|> the crime might not get him out of jail.  Even the same
|> DA CONVICTING another person of the same crime might not
|> get him out of jail.  Or, as the Supreme Court has put it,
|> "Innocence is no bar to execution."  These are recent
|> historical facts.
|>
|>
|> This has been a public service announcement.

I'm afraid I don't get the point of all this "if he were
African-American" talk.  The statistics I've seen show that he'd
have been more likely to have been accused of commiting a crime
and to have a prior record if he were African-American (note that
I take pains not to presume guilt or innocence, because stats don't
tell that).  Given this, and also given that the majority of crimes
committed against AA's is committed BY AA's, I'd feel safer (if I
were an AA) with the "lock 'em up" attitude, unless I thought they'd
unjustly lock ME up.  Is this where you're coming from; i.e., they
could just grab you off the street and lock you up?

Tom Disque
"My opinions, not SAS Institute's"