Those statistics are totally false. They are liberal propaganda. Check the FBI stats. Less than 10% of young, black men are in prison and the rate is much lower for older men and women.
The majority of those in prison, both black and white are in for violent or property crimes. In fact, white inmates are very slightly more likely to be in for non-violent crimes than black inmates, which disproves the myth that blacks are treated more harshly by the justice system. The stats show that there is no statistically significant difference, an that insignificant difference favors blacks, not whites.
The vast majority of those incarcerated for drugs are dealers, not users, and you can bet that the majority of dealers have committed violent crimes for which they were never caught or convicted. Also, many currently in for drug dealing have prior records of violent and/or property crimes.
Prison is generally a last resort in this country, following juvenile offender programs, pre-trial intervention programs, drug treatment programs, community service and probation. One generally has to work hard at being a criminal to go to prison. Even when prison sentences are given, they are generally way too short for the crime, and typically only a small portion of those inadequate sentences are ever served.
The vast majority of those in prison are hardened criminals, who have made a lifestyle of harming other people and stealing their property.
There are FAR more people walking the streets who belong in prison than the other way around.
“The majority of those in prison, both black and white are in for violent or property crimes. “
I was specifically talking about non-violent crimes. You added property crimes as well. Here’s the stats on non-violent offenders:
“According to data from the Department of Justice, 52.7% of state prison inmates, 73.7%
of jail inmates and 87.6% of federal inmates were imprisoned for offenses which involved
neither harm, nor the threat of harm, to a victim.”
- Gilliard and Beck, 1998. p. 11.; Harlow, Caroline Wold, Profile of Jail
Inmates, 1996, Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1998, p. 2.
“Those statistics are totally false. They are liberal propaganda. Check the FBI stats. Less than 10% of young, black men are in prison and the rate is much lower for older men and women.”
The stats are that approx. 25% of black males have been incarcerated, not that 25% are in prison.
“The vast majority of those incarcerated for drugs are dealers, not users, and you can bet that the majority of dealers have committed violent crimes for which they were never caught or convicted. Also, many currently in for drug dealing have prior records of violent and/or property crimes.”
Source, please.