The False Mass Incarceration Narrative:  Sentencing reformers have been pushing the mass incarceration narrative for more than 20 years, claiming that state and federal laws, prosecutors and police have been targeting black males who commit minor drug offenses for long prison sentences.  Rafael A. Mangual of the City Journal lays out the data which disproves this claim in this article.  For the umpteenth time, Mangual cites government and independent studies showing that; most inmates in prison are there for serious and violent crimes; most are repeat offenders; the small percentage that are drug offenders are dealers, most with priors who got a plea bargain; and that the racial disparity in convictions and sentences is tied to the racial disparity in crimes committed.  In 2017, while black males made up roughly 7% of the population, they accounted for 45% of the nation's 15,129 homicides, at a rate 8 times higher than whites.  Because most black murderers kill other blacks. the odds that a black person will be murdered is 6 times higher than for whites. "The claim that drug offenders are nonviolent and pose zero threat to the public if they're put back on the street is also undermined by a striking fact: more than three-quarters of released drug offenders are rearrested for a nondrug crime. It's worth noting that Baltimore police identified 118 homicide suspects in 2017, and 70 percent had been previously arrested on drug charges."