A RAMPANT ACT ON HIGHWAYS AND BY-WAYS IN AMERICA!

A RAMPANT ACT ON HIGHWAYS AND BY-WAYS IN AMERICA!

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(All the News That Nobody Else Will Print)

 

Police violence in the United States is carried out by the smallest percentage of local, state, and federal law enforcement. And to a degree I agree, not all police officers are bad, most are high minded, diligent, and attempt to do the very best job that they can during their work shift. There is however a small minority of police that fly in the face of the honest, hard-working cops that actually wreck the overall representation of all cops.

 

In many circles, political, and religious leaders, as well as important high profile leaders that reside in every community across the country say almost in unison that “times are better and people are more enlightened” then ever. Also these same people relate the fact that the country, and its citizens have come along way in the battle for equality.

 

And I’d be the first to admit that racial attitudes, and racial equality seems to be working towards equal footing, however, that said, I’d like to know how many white people would be will to trade places with a black person?

 

If equality is becoming prevalent here in the United States, I need somebody to refresh my memory as to why there are so many more black people in the country’s prison system? Incarceration overall is running at break-neck speed here in the United States as we jail more of our citizens than any other developed country on the face of the planet.

 

The country’s prison system has come a long way from 1841, when Dorothea Dix discovered that prison systems throughout the country were (in her opinion) being operated inhumanly. Prisoners were routinely chained naked, whipped with rods, caged, placed in cellars and closets, and that the insane were separated from other inmates and usually left to their own devises.

 

Very little attempts are made to rehabilitate today’s convict population; when convicted, these people are incarcerated, serve their sentence…..and are released back into society…..to fend for themselves. Not every law breaker can be rehabilitated, and those convicts that do show a desire to attain a private sector job meet with an almost insurmountable mountain of bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo, and red tape.

 

Today in the United States approximately 1.3 million of the 2.7 million prisoners are black, and as of 2012, 58% of all prison inmates were made up of blacks or Hispanics. 1 in100 black women are serving time in jails for various crimes. 1 in 6 black men have been or are serving time in jail.

 

However the biggest disparity is the number of white people using drugs as opposed to blacks…..14 million whites report using drugs, while 2.6 million blacks were found to be using illicit drugs. Nation-wide, African-Americans represent 12% of the total population of drug users, and blacks serve virtually as much time in prison for drug offenses, 58.7 months, as whites do for a violent offense, 61.7 months.

 

HOWEVER THE VERY WORST HAPPENS ON OUR U.S. HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS

Race is a factor on America’s roads a significant percentage of times…..almost 50% of the time when state or local traffic patrols roam the streets and freeways looking for vehicle law-breaking. We are talking about moving automobile unsafe operation. Excessive speed, unsafe driving practices, or actually driving too slow for conditions are all issues that can call for a cop to pull over a driver.

 

Of course there’s the biggy, driving while black, and these stops can last as long as several hours, and the actions, questions, and the general behavior exhibited by the police officers can usually border on Gestapo abrasiveness. Body pat-down are the norm, strip and cavity searches happen about 25% of the time during these road-side, late night stops and they are done in the name of combating drugs.      

 

Of course there’s the nit-picking walking on the edge of the street when a sidewalk is available for use, this is called walking while black. Cops can pull over, or detain a walking while black, and those detained can be searched, strip searched, and generally treated to rude, abrasive behavior during the entire incident.

 

How did the actions of some of our traffic cops come to this…..two reasons, and two reasons only, poor screening of potential police officers, and a total lack of police, policing cops. We’ve all heard of “being innocent until proven guilty,” but the police agencies take the spirit of this feeling to the nth degree.

 

And here is why many people, black and white, do not trust police officers today…..whenever there is an infraction committed by a cop, no matter the infraction, the entire police community closes ranks, and do not allow for an honest, and complete investigation of incident. Until we clean up our police forces, and obliterate the stupid blue wall of silence, as a country we’ll continue having trouble with this very important part of our society.

 

These are troubling times, our prison system has become a cash cow for some enterprising people, and these people view rehabilitation as putting the binders on their ability to make a lucrative living off some people’s misfortune.

 

Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t think that everybody that’s incarcerated is innocent, and got a raw deal, but I am saying that these law breakers need the opportunity to educate themselves, become productive citizens…..and live a bit of the American dream.

 

And we can start on our streets and road-ways across America, we need to be diligent and watch how police are handling their traffic stops…..not by interference, rather by taking pictures whenever we feel that the treatment being administered seems a bit too aggressive…..it really is our civic duty.

 

HAVE A NICE DAY!