Hi there everyone, I'm white...

[Ms. Toad]

26. Assuming you are serious,

Here is a good starting place: http://www.sentencingproject.org/template/page.cfm?id=189

Yes, police are more likely to ignore white felons than POC, as are DAs, as are juries.

There are many places in the criminal justice system where racial bias (conscious or not, base on race or on stand-ins for race(poverty)) tend to disproportionately put POC in prison.

The laws themselves - which more heavily penalize crack cocaine (much more strongly correlated with POC) than powder cocaine (much more strongly correlated with whites). http://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/sp/RaceandClass.Sentencing.pdf

All of the discretionary choices made:
The decision to stop & frisk - often the first step in the arrest chain
The decision to arrest
The decision to charge
The decision of what specific charges to bring
The decision of whether a plea bargain will be permitted

In addition, people living in poverty are typically defended by public defenders, who are notoriously overworked and underpaid - and get paid little more for going to trial than for negotiating a plea. Fighting, on principle, is something people with money can afford to do - but people without can't. And, not to disparage the many hard working, dedicated public defenders, there are also many who aren't - and constitutionally you are entitled to an attorney, not a competent one. On average - are whites or POC more likely to be able to have the money to afford the luxury of paying to defend themselves on principle?

Here's more, in you are interested in educating yourself about this crisis. http://www.naacp.org/pages/criminal-justice-fact-sheet