The intersection of historical, socioeconomic, legal, and cultural factors has created a dynamic that generates racist outcomes without directly racist intentions. In other words, it isn’t the outcome of a sea of overtly bigoted police officers, lawyers, judges, parole officers, and other personnel. Rather, it is a confluence of America’s racist historical baggage, the primitive legal logic of the justice system itself, and cultural bias that is subconsciously generated by the repetition of disproportionate minority arrests, along with the socioeconomic reality of minority poverty and
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