Posted on 01/20/2014 5:37:37 PM PST by Innovative
Nearly half of black men and 40 percent of white men are arrested at least once on non-traffic-related crimes by the time they turn 23. That's according to a new study.
The estimates published this month by criminologists at the University of South Carolina and the University at Albany didn't rely on arrest records but on an annual federal survey of 7,000 young people who answered questions from 1997 to 2008.
The authors found that by age 18, 30 percent of black men, 26 percent of Hispanic men and 22 percent of white men have been arrested.
By 23, those numbers climb to 49 percent for black men, 44 percent for Hispanic men and 38 percent for white men.
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“Sounds like “kids will be kids” to me.”
It does to me as well. The difference being that 30-40 years ago, there was more discretion being used. Now it’s jail first, ask questions later. That’s very profitable and easy from the justice system’s perspective. However, when 1/3 plus of young men have seen the wrong end of the law, they’re not going to organize to become more moral people, but to avoid the police like the plague and treat the justice system as an oppressor.
There are some T-shirts I saw recently that are popular. They’re take offs on the Warner Bros. logo and say “If you see the police, Warn a Brother.
MIP (minor in possession of alcohol) and marijuana.
Cha ching, cha ching.
I don't believe it either.
One of the standard PC ruses is to lump Hispanics in with whites when compiling these statistics, then neglect to mention the word "Hispanic" when citing the results. I don't know if that was done in this case or not.
I do not think these numbers are accurate. I think as an example that one person was arrested 10 times, another 4 etc so the overall average is much lower.
In Washington, DC they recently did a study which showed that about the same number of whites smoke MJ as do blacks. However 91% of the MJ arrests were of blacks, and the 9% included some Hispanics. DC has 60,000 “returned citizens” who have to sign the BOX about arrest records. Major source of black unemployment in DC and probably elsewhere. Decriminalizing or legalizing MJ will significantly reduce the number of arrests. Of course, it will also cut into the profits of the Prison Corporation of America and similar. On the other hand it will be a major savings to taxpayers with fewer arrests and legal proceedings, and perhaps fewer police needed.
My late husband grew up in a small village in the middle west. He and friends were arrested for taking the church bell down and hiding it in a corn field. The local sheriff put them to work on community clean up projects and at the end of the day took them to the river for a swim. Fast forward a few years and my husband was the town marshall there. I asked him what his job was like. The village was a few miles from a university town. There was no liquor by the drink legal in the state, so the kids would go to the village of 500 where the 3 bars in town sold set ups and the kids brought their own bottles. Husband said basically he was the town bouncer!
I know, right.
Never arrested here. What have I been doing wrong? Seeing those totals listed, are we a little too “policed” maybe? Do that many people deserve arrest?
Kind of hard to believe those numbers.
Yep. Thanks to the WOD we now have a criminal industrial complex that must be sustained and fed with lots of bodies (alive and dead) and money.
Thank you oh so loving government. /sarc
I’m not sure whether this will make you feel better, worse or simply indifferent but Ol’ Rip here is in total agreement with you or at least I would be if you removed the word “probably”.
I am going on seventy and have never been arrested, no charges other than traffic violations but if I could live my young life over now I would likely wind up in jail for life. I was a very easy going lad but by the time I was ten I had been in multiple schoolyard fights, actually drawing blood at least once with just my hands and I was always defending myself, I was never aggressive. In the fifties in Carolina if a boy did NOT get in schoolyard fights ever he was considered to be weak. It was nothing out of the ordinary to see a couple of boys slug it out like prizefighters and though the school did not approve it was never a major issue, it usually resulted in a few cautionary words from a teacher or at most a visit to the office of the principal. I carried a pocketknife ever since I can remember, including at school, I literally don’t recall when I did not have one but would never have dreamed of trying to cut someone. I have never done any law breaking that I am ashamed to speak of now but I could have been sent to prison for years at that and anyone doing the same now probably would be.
I am very aware that if everyone of us were to be caught, tried, convicted and sentenced every time we break a law we would ALL be in jail and that includes ESPECIALLY most judges and law enforcement people. Anyone who thinks they can live a week without breaking a law had better be lying in bed paralyzed.
My better half and I were discussing white smoke, just a few days ago ... and everywhere we looked we saw white smoke. Seems everyone was electing a new Pope.
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