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“The underlying fact is, at it stands today, 71 percent of inmates are black or Latino,” said Rep. Michael P. Lawlor, D-East Haven, co-chairman of the committee. “We have an obligation to keep an eye on that as we make future public policy.”
I couldn’t have said it better myself. But my saying it would be in the context of being more harsh towards “blacks and Latinos,” not being more lenient towards them, as Mr. Lawlor seems to want to do. Remember, states in the Deep South once heeded the “obligation to keep an eye on” high black crime rates as they made “public policy,” but the Yankee government had a problem with it.
