"Are you saying an equal number of crimes are committed by all races and therefore an equal number of people must be locked up or executed?"

". . . must be locked up or executed."

Is this the only method of dealing with crime that conservatives can think of? You don't need to have a Ph.D. in Sociology to see that more often than not, crime rises out of poverty aggravated by the rigors of "second class citizenship," and the feeling that many people in this situation have that there is no hope, no chance to dig themselves out and make a better life for themselves. The best way to deal with crime is to alleviated or eliminate the conditions that breed crime.

Of course, that might lead to things that carry the whiff of socialism. . . .

Don Firth

P. S.   Now corporate crime is an entirely different matter. CEOs who screw their companies into the ground through their own greed, incompetence, or illegal practices (ignoring regulations when the regulatory agencies are manned by their own friends) are not at all averse to a little socialism in the form of government handouts. Capitalism for the poor and middle class, Socialism for the rich. The Right Wing has a most interesting take on the concept of "redistribution of wealth."