No. of Recommendations: 4
Prosecutorial discretion has a liberal bias. What kind of crimes are you referring to?
Prison demographics show that white people are imprisoned at a far lower rate than people of color.
This is interesting with respect to 'white collar crimes.'
Reports I see online suggest that white collar criminals tend to be older, whiter, with job positions that give them access to substantial sums of money. Yet white collar crime criminals receive the most lenient sentencing. Sounds pretty conservative to me.
Demographic data
Among racial and ethnic groups, black persons had
the highest imprisonment rate in 2021 (1,186 per
100,000 adult black residents), followed by American
Indians and Alaska Natives (1,004 per 100,000);
Hispanics (619 per 100,00); white persons (222 per
100,000); and Asians, Native Hawaiians, and Other
Pacific Islanders (90 per 100,000).
"More than 651,800 persons (62% of all state prisoners)
were serving sentences in state prison for a violent
offense at year end 2020, the most recent year for
which offense data were available.
Forty-seven percent (66,500) of all persons in federal prison were serving
time for a drug offense on September 30, 2021 (the
most recent date for which federal prison offense data
were available), and an additional 20% (28,500) of
persons sentenced to federal prison were serving a
sentence for a weapons offense." "75.2% of those who commit property crimes, embezzlement, counterfeiting, bribery, or fraud are White.
Which is notably higher than 60.1% of the population that identifies as White. In fact, the percentage for bribery, in particular, is a considerable 84.9%." zippia.com - White collar crime statistics
