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Despite being roughly half of the population, there's a much higher percentage of men being arrested, prosecuted, and incarcerated for crimes than woman. I'm pretty sure men are far more likely to be shot by police, as well. In fact, I can thing of only one recent story where a young woman was shot and killed by police (admittedly, though, I haven't looked at any actual stats on this particular issue). Does all this tend to prove that the system is rigged against males?
Beware the approaching poll (working on it).
Despite being roughly half of the population, there's a much higher percentage of men being arrested, prosecuted, and incarcerated for crimes than woman. I'm pretty sure men are far more likely to be shot by police, as well. In fact, I can thing of only one recent story where a young woman was shot and killed by police (admittedly, though, I haven't looked at any actual stats on this particular issue). Does all this tend to prove that the system is rigged against males?
Beware the approaching poll (working on it).
I voted Other. Meant to vote Yes. It's obvious. Women make up roughly 50% of the population. In almost all crime categories except prostitution, men are arrested 80% of the time. Females 20% of the time. No question that law enforcement and our entire justice system has a systemic problem with gender bias.
I fixed the count error for you. I instead voted for yes and not other.
I voted Other. Meant to vote Yes. It's obvious. Women make up roughly 50% of the population. In almost all crime categories except prostitution, men are arrested 80% of the time. Females 20% of the time. No question that law enforcement and our entire justice system has a systemic problem with gender bias.
Despite being roughly half of the population, there's a much higher percentage of men being arrested, prosecuted, and incarcerated for crimes than woman. I'm pretty sure men are far more likely to be shot by police, as well. In fact, I can thing of only one recent story where a young woman was shot and killed by police (admittedly, though, I haven't looked at any actual stats on this particular issue). Does all this tend to prove that the system is rigged against males?
Beware the approaching poll (working on it).
My first wife bore a resemblance to Barbie.
She'd been pulled over numerous times and received numerous warnings from Leos. When I got popped for a DWI, two blocks from my home, the Cop determined that she was sober enough to drive my truck the rest of the way. We had had about the same amount of alcohol to drink. Truck was a standard shift which she didn't know how to drive.
But she made it! No sense in both of us going down.
That was 25 years ago.
^5 Ken
That's pretty much where I was going, but the two are just semantics differences. Bottom line: treatment is unequal.Based on thirty years as a cop I have two comments. One is that the criminal justice system is not biased against males. It is horribly biased in favor of females but that has little effect on males. It definitely has an effect in rape cases and child abuse cases but most of the time there is no element of male vs. female.
Secondly, I wonder where the break is in the phrase criminal justice system. Is it the criminal justice-system or is it the criminal-justice system. Whatever it is, the goal has absolutely nothing to do with justice. Victims routinely get victimized again.
Look no further than child custody awards, child support, divorce settlements and alimony demands. Guys have traditionally gotten screwed big time being regarded as nothing more than a money pump. They may not be criminals, but they sure are made to pay like one by the courts.
That's pretty much where I was going, but the two are just semantics differences. Bottom line: treatment is unequal.
Differences in treatment in things like family court, and even being arrested in domestic disputes has narrowed somewhat over the last few decades, but the general leniency for women still remains.
I sense, by your questions, that you didn't understand my comments.Really? I've been out of the system and out of the country for quite some time. Have attorneys quit having the women routinely make bogus reports of abuse of the children by their husbands? Are men now given an equal shot at custody? When I'd left they'd quit awarding alimony but had really just renamed it maintenance. Is that discontinued now? And, are wives who ignore visitation requirements from the court dealt with as harshly as men who ignore child support requirements from the courts?
Male speaking.
OP premise is ridiculous.
The y-chromosone maddened, testosterone-crazed male sex is indisputably responsible for 75% or more of all crime, especially violent crime. This has been true in all societies throughout history.
The sad thing is that not enough of these homicidal male bastards are getting caught: there have been over 200,000 unsolved murders since 1980, and God knows how many other unsolved crimes are on the books- tens of millions? On top of everything else there are even unreported violent crimes, especially rape. The vast majority of all this mayhem is caused by men.
We need to lock up more criminal male bastards. A lot more. Not less.
No it is not irrelevant. OP considers higher male conviction rates to be evidence of bias. But evidence establishes that men do, in fact, perpetrate crime at much higher rates than women.Everything you say is true, more or less, and totally irrelevant.
If true not evidence of bias, and totally irrelevant.A man kills his wife and he will often commit suicide because he knows he'll be spending at least most of the rest of his life in prison.
Probation only for a murder conviction? I don’t think so. Of course if she was being physically abused by the almost inevitably much stronger male then she would deserve sympathy, and might well beat the rap, with good reason.The woman knows she'll get a lot of sympathy and probably probation.
Not a chance.And the unreported forcible rape reports are possibly topped by the false reports of rape.
Yes it is: investigation, arrest, prosecution, and prison are all functions of criminal justice.Plus, catching criminals isn't the criminal justice system.
You have pulled the rug out from under yourself. This is case of flagrant bias in favor of the male criminal, and flangant bias against his female victim.Once they're caught, the criminal justice system releases them as soon as possible. I had a case where a college student was raped by a 50-year old neighbor who broke into her house, beat her, and raped her. He was arrested and hauled off to jail. Two days later she called in a panic. He was back home, sitting on his porch making obscene gestures when she came home from class. Oh, right, out of bail. And he's innocent until proven guilty. So what to do? The advice from the DA? Have the girl move. The system is as non-functioning as the Chicago school system and for the same reason.
No it is not irrelevant. OP considers higher male conviction rates to be evidence of bias. But evidence establishes that men do, in fact, perpetrate crime at much higher rates than women.
If true not evidence of bias, and totally irrelevant.
Furthermore, those who don’t commit suicide deserve to spend the rest of their lives in prison. Furthermore, I would be happy if all of the bastards committed suicide. Then they would no longer be a threat to innocent people, and would no longer be expensive wards of the state.
Probation only for a murder conviction? I don’t think so. Of course if she was being physically abused by the almost inevitably much stronger male then she would deserve sympathy, and might well beat the rap, with good reason.
Not a chance.
Yes it is: investigation, arrest, prosecution, and prison are all functions of criminal justice.
You have pulled the rug out from under yourself. This is case of flagrant bias in favor of the male criminal, and flangant bias against his female victim.
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