r/news • u/FreeChickenDinner • 4d ago

West Virginia couple charged with trafficking their adopted Black children to be used as ‘slaves,’ authorities allege

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/us/west-virginia-adopted-black-children-slaves-reaj/index.html
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u/MajorNoodles 4d ago

What makes me sad is that their prison cells are gonna be a lot nicer than that

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u/Natural-Orange4883 4d ago

Yea but the other inmates won't be. Child abuse like this is considered as bad as a sex charge. They will have a lot of enemies in prison.

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u/mmm_guacamole 4d ago

Also, there's a disproportionate amount of black folks in the corrections system for some weird reason.

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u/omgdude29 4d ago

Couldn't have anything to do with increased policing in areas where larger concentrations of black people live almost like it was designed as a means to keep them living in poverty?

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u/Sage2050 4d ago

Probably not. I doubt it has anything to do with targeted laws and selective enforcement either.

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u/Kroniid09 4d ago

And super duper nothing to do with the 13th amendment's exception for slavery as long as the person has been "duly convicted".

Certainly nothing to do with that, and definitely nothing at all to do with the for-profit prison system.

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u/robodrew 4d ago

Broken Windows policy was about fixing broken windows obviously!!

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u/wwwdiggdotcom 4d ago

Wait, was it actually not? I haven’t heard about it since high school but we were taught crime went down once money went into repairing broken windows and picking up trash or something like that. Was it actually some kind of racist legislation?

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u/Iskali 4d ago

Selective enforcement. Broken window laws only get enforced on the poor side of town.

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u/xjay2kayx 4d ago

Kind of like when the police decided to use AI to help them with better deploying police resources and their model just showed them that they should deploy more officers to areas where they were already over patrolling.

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u/cashonlyplz 4d ago

makes me remember some story out of Florida where they were testing precrime studd in schools, basically setting kids up for failure, based on biased, untested algos. shameful precedents happening, and worthwhile, precedents based on overwhelming consensus are vanishing

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u/knowitall89 4d ago

It was less about repairing broken windows and more about excessive punishment for breaking windows (and other small crimes) in order to deter other crime.

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u/Chang-San 4d ago

Almost like the same type of policies people are still trying to advocate for today.

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u/Polywhirl165 4d ago

The policy was aimed at overly harsh punishments on minor crimes. The idea was if they can stop minor crimes, the major ones will also slow down. It worked to a degree, but was mostly enforced in heavily black areas.

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u/weekendclimber 4d ago

Hey, hey, hey, let's not bring race into this. We're talking about crime.

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u/Unknown-Meatbag 4d ago

Definitely not sure due to redlining and baked in systemic racism. No nosiree.

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u/idwthis 4d ago

This is off topic, but I say nosiree all the time. It's nice to see someone else do it, too! I usually add a Bob to the end myself. And I never use it sarcastically, nosireebob, not me.

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u/Val_Killsmore 4d ago

Or the 13th Amendment. Can't forget about the 13th Amendment either.

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u/sinat50 4d ago

Almost everything to do with the 13th amendment actually

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u/pandershrek 4d ago

Might have to do with becoming adults after being locked in a barn their entire life and having stunted social skills.

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u/JacketDapper944 4d ago

Don’t forget that the 13th amendment conveniently does not protect convicted felons serving their sentences from forced labor (or, ya know, de facto slavery).

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u/pendragon2290 4d ago

Statically, the median income of an area is a better indicator than policing. Not saying there isn't a connection, income inequality is usually just the bigger piece at play. Most the time.

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u/electrorazor 4d ago

I always thought it was the other way around. Systemic poverty led to higher crime, which led to increased policing.

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u/omgdude29 4d ago

Higher crime is only caught there more often because of increased policing. And the increased policing isn't actually because they are poor but because they are black. Predominantly white areas have high crime too, but not as many police to care or notice.

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u/Prestigious-Pay-6475 4d ago

Why not live there then? The house prices are better.