Engineering Student: FALSE IDENTIFICATION; POSSESSION AND SALE OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES
I know I’ve got white privilege. Being white gives me extraordinary power here. Just be careful, the cops tell me. Go home.
READ MOREOne in four people in the US has a criminal record; four in four have a criminal history. These are the stories of people who ‘got away with it.’ Doctors, lawyers, professors, students, police, and policymakers consider how life would be different had they been caught while examining race and class privilege.
I know I’ve got white privilege. Being white gives me extraordinary power here. Just be careful, the cops tell me. Go home.
READ MOREThis could go in any direction. Where do you want to start?
READ MOREBack in the day, we thought no one could touch us. We were just kids—what could any one do to us?
READ MOREI could have had a felony on my record for something that I wasn’t going to be doing in my twenties anyway.
READ MOREThen there I was, on one side of the bars for doing something a lot of guys on the other side had gotten caught for.
READ MOREI consider myself a pretty open person, but when I heard about this project, I thought, how dare they say that? I purposefully don’t do anything wrong.
READ MOREI’m not really in the demographic associated with dealers, and my customers were people I wouldn’t have interacted with normally: footballers and frat bros.
READ MOREI don’t really think of them as crimes, though.
I mean, really. Do people get convicted for stuff like this?
READ MOREI’m having trouble remembering things that I did that were illegal, I just don’t think about it.
READ MOREI just wish I had made a different decision.
READ MOREIronically – eighty percent of my caseload was drug dealers.
READ MOREThey were just too tempting
READ MORE