@feld @jeff @matrix @awg @djsumdog @sjw
FBI data 2011 to 2013 â 38.5 per cent of people arrested for murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault were black.
2010 USA Census - 12.6% of the total population is black
so black are over represented on the arrested population
I was thinking whatever if the âblack people being more likely the one committing a violent crimeâ statement holds on other countries other than the USA, I found that in the UK blacks are only 2.7% of the population but represent 13.7% of the prison population source. Or this 2004 article on foreign criminality in Japan in which people from African countries have a âcrime/offence rateâ of 0.954% compared with 0.340%.
The âblack people being more likely to commit crimeâ statement may hold truth in some countries, but sadly most countries arenât fixated on race like the USA to keep statistics on that. But in the end, saying that âblack are more likely to commit crimeâ shouldnât be a racist statement, it mostly like itâs because most blacks are on low socioeconomic status, and itâs know that people on low SES tend to commit more crime.
@dirb @feld @jeff @matrix @awg @sjw Correlation is also not causation, and I think you hit it well with some of the other countries (they might be high, but no where near as high). Furthermore, if you correlated poor people and crime, the numbers are likely just as high. The causation is more about a system that keeps minorities in poverty in the US more than other nations. That doesn't exclude personal agency. Harvard is in a law suit for discriminated against Asians for high test scores.
@matrix @dirb @feld @jeff @awg @sjw I love the Immortal Technique song/rap where he talks about how "Poverty is never a part of anyone's culture" or something like that..