California dreaming: the Racial Justice Act is a law enforcement nightmare
I hope this doesn’t spread to other states. It’s bad enough that it’s the new policy in California. It’s truly stunning to contemplate:
California is about to demonstrate what a world constructed from the tenets of critical race studies looks like. The sentencing reversal in California v. Windom is the result of a recent law that will likely bring the state’s criminal-justice system to its knees. The Racial Justice Act, passed in 2020 without meaningful public review, turns long-standing academic tropes about implicit bias and white privilege into potent legal tools. And the floodgates are about to open. Starting this year, the RJA allows anyone serving time in a California prison or jail for a felony to challenge his conviction and sentencing retroactively on the ground of systemic racial bias.
The Act was introduced by stripping an old bill of its content and replacing it with this content and then fast-tracking it in a stealth way without hearings or publicity. Now it’s the law, and it’s an incredible one that will have enormous repercussions:
The Racial Justice Act operationalizes the proposition that every aspect of the criminal-justice system is biased against blacks. But according to the act’s legislative authors, it’s too hard to prove such bias in the case of individual arrests and prosecutions. Therefore, the act does away with the concept of individual fault and individual proof. From now on, statistics about past convictions are sufficient to invalidate a present trial or sentence. …
[Previously, defendants were required to] show that criminal-justice decision-makers were purposefully biased against them, in order to throw out a conviction or a sentence under the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Court ruled. Statistics purporting to show a historical pattern of bias are not enough to support the requisite showing of individual discriminatory purpose against a particular defendant.
Thanks to the RJA, McCleskey no longer governs bias challenges in California. From now on in California, statistics purporting to show a pattern of bias in the past are enough to invalidate a current arrest, criminal charge, or judicial sentence.
And it doesn’t need to actually show bias, just a disparity in results. The insane presumption is that all races and groups commit crimes in proportion to their percentage in the population, and any disparity in numbers is evidence of discrimination.
Please read the whole thing.
How to Destroy a State.
How to Destroy a Society.
How to Destroy a Country.
Vote Democrat!!
(In fact, How to Destroy Anything you Want To…)
As everybody knows, blacks are crimemiscous. They commit an inordinate amount of crime. Much higher than their percentage of the population. For example, the ACLU was promoting the myth of driving while black. They claimed the police were targeting black drivers. The NJ police set up a video camera coupled to a radar speed meter to take a video of the speeders. Blacks were about 16% of the NJ Turnpike drivers but turned out to be about 25% of the speeders. Did the ACLU apologize? No, they kept right on telling this lie.
Equity is centrally planned social outcomes, based not only on race (as in this case), but gender(s), economic class, mother tongue, religion, etc, etc. It opens up endless possibilities for the few to control the many. It must be overcome.
Some commenter a few days ago mentioned feeling like Kafka’s cockroach. I hate that I agree with that comment.
If “bad” blacks are smart, they move to cali —
a — commit crimes, no repercussions.
b — lots and lots and lots and lots of free shit.
}}} feeling like Kafka’s cockroach
I think “cockroach” is a very accurate description of the California legislation.
Does that count?
California has a very aggressive ballot initiative process that can be used to overturn this, and the legislature wouldn’t be able to overrule the new law.
Will it happen?
Maybe. There have been some signs of crankiness amongst the voters recently.
The Racial Justice Act, passed in 2020 without meaningful public review, turns long-standing academic tropes about implicit bias and white privilege into potent legal tools. And the floodgates are about to open. Starting this year, the RJA allows anyone serving time in a California prison or jail for a felony to challenge his conviction and sentencing retroactively on the ground of systemic racial bias.
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Goes for states too. Maybe we’ll get to see some of the chaos before the November election… Hope so.
The majority of those who vote democrat live in urban/suburban areas where the great majority of crimes occur. A continual refusal to face reality will sooner or later exact a heavy price.
Chicago mom left waiting hours for help after 911 call for home invasion: ‘We have no units to send you’
Ah, well when the Colorado Dems see this, we will have it here too.
Right now, CO Dems are pushing Ranked Voting, another disaster from Cali.
Sounds like Critical Race Theory is the law of California.
Buckle up, what California does other Demarxists will follow
The snap back is going to be spicy.
Right now, CO Dems are pushing Ranked Voting, another disaster from Cali.
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There is nothing wrong with ranked-choice voting per se.
This law will allow all white men who tried out for the NBA and did not make any team to sue on the grounds of disparate outcome.
Ditto for the NFL which is majority black.
The catastrophic result will have been obvious to those who voted for it. What, do you think, they are expecting will work out well for them?
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy…
Problem is, California criminals don’t necessarily stay in California.
John Tyler, this law applies to people who are convicted criminals, not to failed NBA or NFL tryouts.
California may become even less safe, hard as that is to imagine.
yes its a tool, to dismantle the country, like all of the Dem schemes,
The snap back is going to be spicy.
Nothing ever happens.
“Nothing ever happens” until it does.
From Wikipedia
“ Thomas Crane Wales (June 23, 1952 – October 12, 2001) was an American federal prosecutor and gun control advocate who was the victim of an unsolved murder. In 2018, FBI investigators announced they strongly suspected the killing to have been carried out by a paid hitman.”
The race/ethnicity obsession of the Democrats is immensely destructive. See my post An American Version of the Habsburg Empire for one likely outcome of the path we are on:
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/57426.html
…and this is a relatively *good* outcome…equally likely is something much darker.