AZKC wrote:
Now, I'm sure KC didn't mean that everyone who gets charged with a crime is guilty, but that's certainly the inference I'm drawing from that comment that not committing crimes is a way to avoid entanglement in the criminal justice system.
Would the number of blacks in prison be more or less if blacks who are committing crimes, stopped doing so?

Never mind, I am just another racist, neo-con Republican so it doesn't really matter what I actually said, only what people want to infer from what I said.
It would be less, I'm sure, but that's a far cry from saying that if one doesn't do the crime, one won't do time.  That's manifestly not true.   One doesn't have to think you're a racist, neo-con Republican to read your words as saying not committing crimes will keep you out of prison. 

That's even leaving out folks like Cory Maye.  What did keeping his nose clean and trying to raise his daughter gain Maye?


If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. - Federalist 51