CNN Touts Town With All Black Criminal Justice System, But There’s One Glaring Problem

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CNN ran a story over the weekend about a Georgia town where eight black women “hold the reigns of power.” Why does anyone care that black women happen to command political power in this town? Beats me …

Especially since the composition of South Fulton’s judicial system makes perfect since given the town’s demographics: Almost 90 percent of its residents are black. So of course blacks comprise the majority of its government!

Nevertheless, CNN and a boatload of other outlets enthusiastically ran stories about these eight women and how they run their court system. Much like former President Barack Obama, they strongly believe in leniency for suspected criminals:

So is justice really any different in South Fulton compared to the rest of the country, where it’s mostly meted out by white men?

Yes, the women say. Being both black and female means they see things a little bit differently. Being black means they have empathy for many of the defendants who end up in police custody or appear in the courtroom, and they understand the fear that the criminal justice system will be biased against them because of the color of their skin.

They also say that as women they are natural nurturers, so they care deeply about the citizens they meet and want to help them succeed in life.

Does anyone else find it disturbing that these powerful women believe in glaring lies about America’s criminal justice system? Or that they assume white courtroom officials lack empathy?

As Manhattan Institute fellow and criminal justice expert Heather Mac Donald noted back in 2008, “The black incarceration rate is overwhelmingly a function of black crime. Insisting otherwise only worsens black alienation and further defers a real solution to the black crime problem.”

Speaking in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee seven years later, Mac Donald again reiterated this point, saying, “The most dangerous misconception about our criminal justice system is that it is pervaded by racial bias.”

“For decades, criminologists have tried to find evidence for that bias, and they have always come up short. In fact, racial differences in criminal offending account for all of the racial disproportionality of blacks in prison.”

Fast-forward to the 2:03:00 mark below if you want to hear her for yourself:

The eight women who run South Fulton clearly believe otherwise, and I suspect this could potentially be a problem.

Mind you, interim police chief Sheila Rogers is adamant “that being black and a woman doesn’t change the way she enforces the law,” according to CNN. “But she believes her empathic point of view and nurturing tendencies do influence how she treats people, and that trickles down through her 91-person department.”

But is policing about being empathetic or about enforcing the law? And what about courtroom justice — is it about being empathetic or is it about doling out proper justice?