Announcing his presidential bid this month, Sen. Rand Paul said he wants to repeal “any law that disproportionately incarcerates people of color.”

Fulfilling this promise would require gutting murder statutes, and most other criminal laws, given the disproportionate black crime rate.

But whether or not Paul reaches the White House, a wide-ranging movement is already under way to transform the criminal justice system in order to avoid a disparate impact on blacks. This push will jeopardize the country’s two-decade-long crime drop.

The pretext for the current decriminalization movement is the half-dozen highly publicized deaths of blacks in encounters with police over the past nine months, including the recent case of Freddie Gray in Baltimore.

Read the article “The Perilous New Push to Excuse Lawlessness” on nypost.com.