Dawn Kirk

“White people,” the study’s authors observed, “are simply not perceived as drug offenders by Seattle police officers.”89”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“Achieving an all-white jury, or nearly all-white jury, is easy in most jurisdictions, because relatively few racial minorities are included in the jury pool. Potential jurors are typically called for service based on the list of registered voters or Department of Motor Vehicle lists—sources that contain disproportionately fewer people of color, because people of color are significantly less likely to own cars or register to vote. Making matters worse, thirty-one states and the federal government subscribe to the practice of lifetime felon exclusion from juries. As a result, about 30 percent of black men are automatically banned from jury service for life.76”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“A report in 2000 observed that among youth who have never been sent to a juvenile prison before, African Americans were more than six times as likely as whites to be sentenced to prison for identical crimes.64”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“It’s a lot easier to go out to the ’hood, so to speak, and pick somebody than to put your resources in an undercover [operation in a] community where there are potentially politically powerful people.”83”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness