Lack of black prosecutors poses criminal justice problem

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | December 27, 2014 | Joe Garofoli

[artichokegrower]

When grand juries decide not to indict suspects, they rely on information presented by prosecutors.

Following controversial grand jury decisions against indicting police officers responsible for the deaths of unarmed black men in Missouri and New York — and the weeks of protests against police violence — some civil rights leaders are pointing out the need for more black prosecutors.

[artichokegrower]

"But unless we can recruit more people who think like you as prosecutors, there are entire levers of power that we won’t have access to.”

No you want prosecutors who honor the Constitution and respect the law regardless of what color they are.

[albie]

Recruit the perps that “played” the “Knockout Game”. They’re the perfect prospects to get whitey behind bars where he belongs!! Or, they can simply knock whitey out.

[gaijin]

You know what?

I’ll bet if we had a DOJ headed by a black guy then all our racial problems would be gone.

Or maybe even we should have a black President, right?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

But,,,,, they’d have to go to school!

[Robert357]

I guess M L King Jr. was wrong, about the color of their skin. It seems to be all about skin color in the current civil rights movement.

[umgud]

13% of prosecutors should be black. Same for doctors, scientists, lawyers, elected politicians, PHD’s, writers..............

[Ray76]

No doubt these people don’t see themselves as the racists they are.

[artichokegrower]

In California if you are an illegal alien you can be a lawyer so I suppose a certain percentage of prosecutors should be appointed to represent that demographic.

[MileHi]

This is what they said about white teachers in the inner cities. So they pushed out the white teachers and brought in the affirmative action negro teachers. Education in the 'hood has never been......

...er, worse.

[Popman]

So white prosecutors are only be allowed to handle white criminals cases and black prosecutors can only handle black criminals ?

What about all those brown criminals ?

[LaRueLaDue]

Isn’t justice supposed to be blind? Especially color-blind?

These people are absolutely clueless.

[armydawg505]

The lack of black fathers married to the mother of their children also presents a problem. The lack of discipline among many young black men presents a problem. The lack of self discipline among young black having baby after baby out of wedlock is a problem. Should we go on here comparing problems?

[Chode]

and with all those qualified black layers to choose form too...

[DUMBGRUNT]

13% of prosecutors should be black

Is that also an upper limit?

NBA,NFL,hiphop...

[17th Miss Regt]

As the demographics change the DA’s must also change. So if a racially representative group of DAs is working just fine upholding the law at one point and the population of the district changes, some of the DAs will need to be fired for being racially unrepresentative. Yes, they need to be dismissed because of their race. (/s)

[relentlessly]

The available black attorneys are all busy working for the other side.

[17th Miss Regt]

For the sake of color-blindness of the law we must have strict racial representation in the district attorney’s office. Any other approach then hiring DAs by skin color means the law is not color blind.

[17th Miss Regt]

Oops! ‘then’ = ‘than’

[lee martell]

Eddie Murphy may still be available as The Nutty Professor. He’s not doing much acting these days.

[jsanders2001]

> No you want prosecutors who honor the Constitution and respect the law regardless of what color they are.

I think one black head of the JustUs Dept who doesn’t respect or uphold the law and plays favorites is enough...