Re: Re: youth crime enforcement bias (fwd)

2000-05-02 Thread Jim Devine
MD writes: in the first place, everybody can see that the "funding" sources of the report prepared by the Justice Department are highly problematic. They are typical liberal type foundations such as Ford and Soros. As the NY Times article suggests "An unusual feature of the report is that its

Re: Re: youth crime enforcement bias (fwd)

2000-05-02 Thread md7148
MD writes: in the first place, everybody can see that the "funding" sources of the report prepared by the Justice Department are highly problematic. They are typical liberal type foundations such as Ford and Soros. As the NY Times article suggests "An unusual feature of the report is that its

Re: youth crime enforcement bias (fwd)

2000-04-28 Thread md7148
Jim Devine: the author, Scott Shuger, was simply asking questions about these issues. I was hoping for answers to these questions rather than name-calling based on a partial reading. first, let me decompose the neo-liberal journalist Mr.Shuger's article and his critique of the report,

Re: Re: youth crime enforcement bias (fwd)

2000-04-28 Thread Brad De Long
Jim Devine: the author, Scott Shuger, was simply asking questions about these issues. I was hoping for answers to these questions rather than name-calling based on a partial reading. first, let me decompose the neo-liberal journalist Mr.Shuger's Hey! Shuger is not a neo-liberal. I'm a

Re: Re: youth crime enforcement bias (fwd)

2000-04-28 Thread md7148
Yes, Brad! and Shuger subscribes to "sub-cultural experience thesis"-- the thesis that relates racial inequalities to "cultural preferences" ie., I am an African American and I disbenefit from the system because I culturally "prefer" to do so, not because the system is racially biased. against

Re: youth crime enforcement bias (fwd)

2000-04-26 Thread Jim Devine
1. Which study is SLATER magazine referring to? Who did the study? SLATE magazine is Microsoft's on-line magazine of opinion, edited by Michael Kinsley. Its line is similar to that of the NEW REPUBLIC, but more coherent. The article is from their daily news summary. 2. Minority people are

Re: youth crime enforcement bias (fwd)

2000-04-26 Thread Carrol Cox
Jim Devine wrote: the author, Scott Shuger, was simply asking questions about these issues. I was hoping for answers to these questions rather than name-calling based on a partial reading. The Slate report must have been based on the following article, which Doug fwd to lbo. New

Re: youth crime enforcement bias (fwd)

2000-04-26 Thread md7148
1. Which study is SLATER magazine referring to? Who did the study? SLATE magazine is Microsoft's on-line magazine of opinion, edited by Michael Kinsley. Its line is similar to that of the NEW REPUBLIC, but more coherent. The article is from their daily news summary. My question was *not*