[PghBaldy]

True, but there is no way it is 40% of non-hispanic white men. No way.

[tomkat]

350,000,000 * .12 = 42,000,000 = black pop. %

42,000,000 / 2 = 21,000,000 = black male pop. %

21,000,000 / 4 = 5,250,000 = black males < 23yo

5,250,000 * .50 = 2,625,000 black males < 23yo arrested

Now, compared to the results of my rough math in post #39 above:

21,875,000 * .40 = 8,750,000 white males < 23yo arrested

.. these people are claiming numbers that, when accounting for the target demographics' relative %s of the population,
purport to show white males <23yo being arrested at almost a 4:1 rate over black males of the same age range.

While granting that I've been wrong once or twice in the past few years {:-), this 'study' smells even more like BS this morning than it did last night.