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Lawman voices discrimination fears
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SAN FRANCISCO (Map, News) - San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey on Monday announced that a survey of the county jail population shows that more than 60 percent of the prisoners are black.
In a news release, he cited U.S. Census Bureau numbers from 2006 showing that blacks make up 6.7 percent of the population in The City.
“It is puzzling that at a time when San Francisco lost 35 percent of its African-American population, the African-American jail population could increase by 10 percentage points,” Hennessey, right, said in the release. “I am concerned that the criminal justice system and the war on drugs, specifically, are ... disproportionately adversely affecting San Francisco’s African-American community.”
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Examiner Reader said:
Sheriff Hennessey has no problem with civilians running the place because he himself is a civilian, never worked as sworn peace officer. He would not be qualified be sheriff under today's laws.
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Please click on the "Change My Location" link right under where it says "examiner.com San Francisco" and look at other cities. Find crime articles and click on them and see for yourselves who is committing these violent crimes across the country. I looked at Seattle, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Chicago and Dallas just to name a few, and most violent crimes were committed by black suspects. Look at the story titled "LA gang member turned author 'Monster' Kody sentenced to prison". I remember this monster (a moniker that couldn't be more accurate) from when I lived in LA and this guy was a walking crime wave. his mother says she raised him right but "something went wrong and the street won". Well, this guy is a hero to thousands of blacks who could not tell you what Barack Obama does for a living. Black crime is a nationwide crisis that everyone must confront, because everyone fears young black males. No one fears young black males more than other young black males. This has to change.
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The last thing a person like the previous commenter wants to do is admit the obvious. Racism against black people by the police in San Francisco, Oakland and most any other major city in the U.S. is real and happening all the time. If you don't realize the discrimination against black people is because you don't want to. Anybody who says otherwise is fooling themselves or otherwise trying to mislead people. They are part of the problem and the reason the police get away with it so often. Any other view on whether black people are discriminated against by the police is just B.S.
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Thanks to the previous reader's comment. That pretty much sums it up. One wonders: Does Sheriff Hennessey not have anything more important to worry about?
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Puzzling? Blacks commit more crimes than any other racial demographic, plain and simple. All one has to do is look at other cities across the country and see for themselves. We may have a black population of 6% but it shows there is a high propensity for crime among this very small segment of SF's population. Is Hennessey inferring that whites are just as violent as blacks, but their crimes are being ignored by a complicit police department? Jail and prison stays are a right of passage among many blacks, and only blacks themselves can make changes to their lifestyles. If they don't want to change and refrain from their downward spiral, oh well. Society has given them thousands of opportunities and they have chosen to squander them, all in the name of "keeping it real".
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