Comments by "Barry On" (@barryon8706) on "No Accident: TikTok Star’s Fatal High-Speed Crash Was Intentional | Appeal Court." video.

  1. Not quite. In 2023 sentencing data, "When examining all sentences imposed, females received sentences 29.2 percent shorter than males. Females of all races were 39.6 percent more likely to receive a probation sentence than males. When examining only sentences of incarceration, females received lengths of incarceration 11.3 percent shorter than males." That might or might not be wholly or partially due to prior criminal records, though. Men do tend to commit more serious crimes than women.
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  2.  @anthonym840  I'd caution against some of that reasoning. There are probably some men given shorter sentences than some women. I'm more comfortable with averages. But that said, I'd say that the legal system is biased probably in favor of women, even with everything else being equal. I'd also say it's probably biased in favor of Whites over Blacks; those sentencing statistics show similar bias, though that could also be wholly or partially due to priors. Blacks commit more serious crimes than Whites, just as men commit more serious crimes than women. Both the right and left object to this, but to different aspects, which is both funny and sad. I'd be fine with more standardized sentencing, with judges individual preferences removed. Give each crime a grade, factor in all the priors, and arrive at a sentence with a formula that's hopefully simpler than the tax code. For people like myself who value equal treatment over equal outcome, that would be worlds better.
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  3.  @anthonym840  Yes, but I can still object to one kind of reasoning you used, even if I support the conclusion. If I say that I know rain exists because elves tell me so, I'm very likely wrong about the elves but I'm right about the rain. You said, "As weve seen, men have served longer for the same crime, even with no prior convictions." That's true, but in and of itself it doesn't matter much, and I wanted to point it out because I've seen well-meaning people get trapped by that kind of thinking. For an example, we see times when Blacks get shot by cops and Whites don't, and some people will look at times Whites didn't get shot and say, "If he'd been Black, cops would have shot him." But we also see times when Whites get shot and times that Blacks don't. There are a lot of police encounters across the country in cases where a cop could reasonably shoot someone or not.
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