Supposedly the Booker case made mandatory minimums advisory and not mandatory in the federal system but it has not had that effect because the federal courts are jammed with right wing Republicans by design. The horrible wrongs of the 1 to 100 laws has not be addressed and this new bill will also not solve the problem. #dickdurbin
My solution: Equip all cop cars with gas chromatography machines and force them all to do chemical analyses of crack cocaine on site to determine its purity percentages. It's the only way to be sure.
Err. Hell the hell no, Andrew?
Taking the worst of two screwed up implementations does no one any good.
Your suggestion is akin to saying that since Zero Tolerance for grade school compasses is so bad, let's automatically expel any kids caught playing Rock, Paper*, Scissors.
* Yup, it could symbolize rolling papers, so expel any flat-palmed miscreants too. #dickdurbin
"Wouldn't it make more sense to lower the levels of cocaine needed to get a minimum sentence?" A lot of judges are tired of mandatory minimum sentences because they tie their hands as far as sentencing goes. That's probably why Durbin isn't advocating decreasing the powdered cocaine levels needed to trigger the MMS guidelines, which call for, Andrew, a five-year minimum sentence for possession of five grams of crack cocaine.
If we just lower the levels of powdered cocaine needed for a mandatory minimum sentence, doesn't that just exacerbate our problems in this War on Drugs? Don't get me wrong, I think the disparity is something that needs to be remedied, but it doesn't even try to fix the systemic weaknesses within our criminal justice system.
Most black guys know that black women have a reputation for being particularly reluctant to polish the knob. Obviously there are those that do. But the saying has some truth. Something about many black women finding it degrading. Although, I don't see what could be more degrading than being linked romantically to Marion Barry.
@irishbreakfast: Language aside, I'm a 24YO woman who has had no knob-polishing experience, and plenty of the other kinds of lovin'. El_Gato raises a somewhat honest point.
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FYI: I date a chemistry Ph.D. #dickdurbin
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Taking the worst of two screwed up implementations does no one any good.
Your suggestion is akin to saying that since Zero Tolerance for grade school compasses is so bad, let's automatically expel any kids caught playing Rock, Paper*, Scissors.
* Yup, it could symbolize rolling papers, so expel any flat-palmed miscreants too. #dickdurbin
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"most", "reputation" "many"? Your point is what? Based on your own experience, perhaps? Or do you speak for all black men and women?
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