Ah, Bill!

I must point out that we were not looking at suspects.

We were looking at first time offenders. They had admitted guilt and been deferred to a court monitored treatment program.

So, in retrospect, the study was more likely to find a bias toward people who trusted the system to work.

So comparing them to the jury pool sort of makes sense.

These people were in the justice system for the first time. Had agreed to treatment instead of jail. If treatment failed, or they failed to meet the court mandated ‘rules’, sentence was imposed.

I saw several white males and one female have mandatory drug sentences imposed because they failed a urine test.

The urine test was mandatory and weekly. Finding a job was mandatory. Paying for the treatment and the court services were mandatory. And, some other conditions.

So all these people were felons, convicted, and the sentence already determined. They could be selected for the treatment program IF they were first timers in the justice system.

Any failure on their part and they went to jail. No further steps in criminal justice. They had either confessed or been convicted in a trial.

So no illegals could have been in the program. No one with a prior conviction could be in the program. Any violation of law triggered their ejection from the program. Which meant immediately going to jail.

So it wasn’t a measure of criminality. It was a measure of drug use among ‘normal law abiding citizens.’

We were correct to compare those people to the jury pool.

Based on my part in the study, white people were more likely to use drugs than other ethnic groups.

(It’s a summary that doesn’t disclosure the faults of the methodology) All methods have faults, including the natural bias of the people doing the study etc etc etc

Pot calling the kettle black. Say hi to snerdley for me.

Poor Al hates reality….lies are his style…

we all know that the illegal invaders are all law abiding victims of the angry white man….just as the Katrina survivors…

BTW, Biden who favors tightening the U.S.-Mexico border with fences, said immigration is driven by money in low-wage Mexico.

Unless the political dynamics change in Mexico and U.S. employers who hire illegal immigrants are punished, illegal immigration won’t stop. “All the rest is window dressing,” he said.

An even bigger problem are illegal drugs “coming up through corrupt Mexico,” he said. “People are driving across that border with tons, tons — hear me — tons of everything from byproducts for methamphetamines, to cocaine, to heroine.”

We sampled demographics in drug cases and compared those to jury pools.

OUCH!

There were more white faces in the drug court than in the jury pool. And, the age group were about the same. Older.

I’d have to dig up my notes as my paper was never published.

As I remember, the only abnormal observation was that men in drug court were more likely to have facial hair than men in the jury pool.

And, to make the sample representative, we only sampled first time offenders.

I was not the only observer, in case you’re wondering. The study started in late 2003 and I was helping with it in 2004.

The professor suffered a series of severe strokes before the paper and the study could be published.