Heather MacDonald @ City Journal
Recent legislation makes it easier for felons to claim racial bias—potentially putting them back on the streets in large numbers.
On July 13, 2020, gunfire broke out between two cars in the Bay Area town of Antioch, California. One of the cars’ occupants, Daunzhay Young, was hit during the fusillade and was rushed to the hospital. Young survived—this time.
Oakland’s gang wars were radiating outward, including to this once-bucolic city northeast of Oakland. Young was a member of Oakland’s Case gang. A month later, another Case gangbanger was shot while sitting in a car in Oakland. He died the next day. On August 27, 2020, a third Case member was shot in Oakland; three guns were collected at the scene. Case’s archenemy, the ENT gang—named for three dead homies—was on a roll.
On August 29, 2020, Daunzhay Young’s luck ran out. A male chased him down a quiet residential street in Antioch in the middle of the day, gun blazing. After Young collapsed, the gunman stood over him and pumped him with additional shots from a semiautomatic pistol. The execution was successful.
Antioch’s next known entry in the Case–ENT feud occurred on February 27, 2021. A 21-year-old male was ambushed in his car at an Antioch gas station in the middle of the day; when the ambushee tried to escape on foot, he was shot ten more times. After he fell, his assailant, later identified as Terryonn Pugh, pistol-whipped him. The victim’s Case confederates returned fire from their car. Later that evening, Case members sprayed bullets around an Oakland intersection to show ENT who was boss. . . .
California is about to demonstrate what a world constructed from the tenets of critical race studies looks like. The sentencing reversal in California v. Windom is the result of a recent law that will likely bring the state’s criminal-justice system to its knees. The Racial Justice Act, passed in 2020 without meaningful public review, turns long-standing academic tropes about implicit bias and white privilege into potent legal tools. And the floodgates are about to open. Starting this year, the RJA allows anyone serving time in a California prison or jail for a felony to challenge retroactively his conviction and sentencing on the ground of systemic racial bias.
The Racial Justice Act operationalizes the proposition that every aspect of the criminal-justice system is biased against blacks. But according to the act’s legislative authors, it’s too hard to prove such bias in the case of individual arrests and prosecutions. Therefore, the act does away with the concept of individual fault and individual proof. From now on, statistics about past convictions are sufficient to invalidate a present trial or sentence. ...
The defense bar and activist groups know how powerful a tool the California legislature has handed them. An ACLU attorney told the Berkeley conference: “We have the potential for something grand: to unravel an unjust system. We are celebrating the dawn of a new era.” ...
.... the bill is a ticking time bomb. Kalra’s colleagues “did not understand how significant the RJA was,” he told the Berkeley RJA conference. “Maybe now they do.” Racial justice advocates are distributing material in prisons to tutor convicts on bringing RJA actions. Kalra is a celebrity among the incarcerated. He has been accosted by his fans at least eight times while visiting prisons.
... The fiction that all racial disparities are the result of racial bias has already compromised meritocratic standards in STEM, the legal profession, and other high-stakes endeavors. Now that that fiction has become part of California’s criminal-justice system, the determined law-enforcement work that shut down the East Bay’s Case–ENT feud will become rarer. Why should police and prosecutors try aggressively to incapacitate murderous black gangs when their efforts can be undone on the basis of tendentious statistical analyses? Unless California voters reverse the Racial Justice Act, the state is about to become more violent and the promise of equal justice under the law less credible.
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