Fuck these elections.
I live in Georgia and my local government consist of primarily black elected officials.
Yet, Georgia leads the nation in placing its citizens on probation, a distinction that is now being studied by the state’s criminal justice reform experts. Georgia’s probation population at the end of last year was 471,067, according to statistics released Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. In spite of a 9 percent decline over the previous year, Georgia’s number was still the highest in the nation — by far.
Georgia also topped the charts for its probation rate, which was quadruple the national rate and more than double the rate posted by any other state.
Georgia's rate of placing people on probation is the highest in the nation. Here is the number of people on probation per 100,000 adult residents in 2014.
Georgia: 6,161
United States: 1,568
Source: U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics
Go to the courtrooms in Fulton, Dekalb, Gwinnett, Cobb counties and you will see black district attorney's, black judges, black public defendants, black police chiefs. They get into these powerful positions and continue the white supremacy system in which harm our people the most by far. This frustrates me way more than who our next president will be. Atlanta is supposed to be the black Mecca....or was.
I live in Georgia and my local government consist of primarily black elected officials.
Yet, Georgia leads the nation in placing its citizens on probation, a distinction that is now being studied by the state’s criminal justice reform experts. Georgia’s probation population at the end of last year was 471,067, according to statistics released Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. In spite of a 9 percent decline over the previous year, Georgia’s number was still the highest in the nation — by far.
Georgia also topped the charts for its probation rate, which was quadruple the national rate and more than double the rate posted by any other state.
Georgia's rate of placing people on probation is the highest in the nation. Here is the number of people on probation per 100,000 adult residents in 2014.
Georgia: 6,161
United States: 1,568
Source: U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics
Go to the courtrooms in Fulton, Dekalb, Gwinnett, Cobb counties and you will see black district attorney's, black judges, black public defendants, black police chiefs. They get into these powerful positions and continue the white supremacy system in which harm our people the most by far. This frustrates me way more than who our next president will be. Atlanta is supposed to be the black Mecca....or was.
