Color blindness is wrong (maybe even racist) in criminal justice system

[C C]

Study: Prosecutors embrace a color-blind approach to prosecution, highlights need for cultural rescripting in prosecution
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/931772

RELEASE: A new study explored how prosecutors think about race in criminal justice, providing ideas of how to break the color-blind approach to prosecution that can entrench racial disparities. The study found that prosecutors broadly argue that race should not be considered when processing cases. Conducted by a researcher at Florida International University (FIU), the study is forthcoming in the American Society of Criminology’s journal Criminology.

“Color-blindness is one piece of a very strong and cohesive prosecutorial culture,” says Rebecca Dunlea, an assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice at FIU and the author of the study. “Getting prosecutors to see themselves as part of the solution to racial disparities will require changing their views on how to approach race, but it will probably also require that they reevaluate other core beliefs about how they do their work and achieve justice.”

Color-blindness does not address racial disparities, and may even worsen them by maintaining policies and practices that are facially race-neutral but disproportionately harm people of color. Some scholars argue that colorblindness in criminal justice has done more harm than good.

Based on interviews with 47 prosecutors from Jacksonville and Tampa, Florida, in 2018, the study found that they widely embraced a color-blind approach to processing cases. Interviewees consistently said they believed that the best way to handle these disparities was to not consider the race of defendants, victims, or witnesses when making case decisions.

Support for the color-blind approach was informal and widespread, the study found, with prosecutors saying they worked to appear race-neutral, denying the possibility of discrimination in their offices. Prosecutors of color appeared to support the color-blind approach as much as their White counterparts.

This color-blind approach is reinforced by other scripts deeply embedded in prosecutorial culture, such as “every case is unique,” “poverty and culture cause crime,” and “we only prosecute what the police bring to us,” the study found. All these seemingly race-neutral scripts are used by prosecutors to justify the rejection of their role in reforms that target racial disparities in criminal justice.

Article Title: “No Idea Whether He’s Black, White, or Purple”: Colorblindness and Cultural Scripting in Prosecution
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As expected, via the influences of CRT now fully circulating into the social sciences and academics.

Critical Race Theory: "Like CLS scholars, critical race theorists believed that political liberalism was incapable of adequately addressing fundamental problems of injustice in American society ... because its emphasis on the equitable treatment under the law of all races (“colour blindness”) rendered it capable of recognizing only the most overt and obvious racist practices, not those that were relatively indirect, subtle, or systemic. Liberalism was also faulted for mistakenly presupposing the apolitical nature of judicial decision-making and for taking a self-consciously incremental or reformist approach that prolonged unjust social arrangements and afforded opportunities for retrenchment and backsliding through administrative delays and conservative legal challenges."

So in essence, liberalism is too deaf and slow when it comes to acknowledging the conspiracy theories of leftist intellectuals.

[Syne]

Racial color-blindness is just another term for MLK's "content of their character." The left objecting to either is their own racist assumption that the character of some races is inherently inferior and must somehow be made allowances for, in order to produce equal results, regardless of how unequal the behavior. Trying to rectify some imagined disparity in results by creating a disparity between action and consequence is actually unconstitutional, as it violates equal protection under the law, by extending extra prosecutorial protections to some people but not others. You know, aside from the fact that enabling criminals doesn't deter their criminality. Prosecutors of color support racial color-blindness because they've learned the law to become lawyers.

If disparities in crime aren't due to things like “poverty and culture cause crime," they can only be due to either a demonstrable racial bias (which even CRT has been able to produce) or inherent racial inferiority. But then, Democrats have always been the real mainstream group of racists.