A Bad Place To Be?

Is Wisconsin if you are black. So goes the this story I just noticed at Yahoo. The story is put out by WISN Wisconsin: Worst Place To Be Black?

I love this part

Chicago native Lori Crandle, who faces a number of charges for battery and bail jumping, told News 3 that the criminal justice system deck is stacked against African-Americans.

"I really don't want to say racism, but it's racism," Crandle said. "A lot of black people that come down here from different states to move down here end up going to jail because either the police harass them or they just get themselves in trouble. And when they go to court and stuff they feel intimidated."

One group that works with incarcerated residents says the rate of black prisoners from Dane County is especially high -- probably the highest of any county in the United States. Sixty percent of those sent to prison from Dane County are black -- even though blacks comprise just 6 percent of the county population.

Parts of this story read like those stories where the writer notes the crime rate falls when incarceration rates rise and is baffled by the correlation.

I think it is ironic the leftists in Madison rank so highly in a stat that most leftists would assume would be led by some county down in Mississippi or Alabama or some such.