Rev. Al Sharpton's Weekly Blog

Reducing Gun Violence and Reforming Our Criminal Justice System Simultaneously

I can cite facts and figures all day long depicting the disparity in which different communities are policed, who gets stopped, who gets frisked, who gets arrested, who can afford an attorney and what actual crime rates are broken down by various categories including race and ethnicity. Bottom line is, our criminal justice system is unbalanced, broken and in need of immediate repair.