Posted on 06/23/2015 10:21:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A new report released Tuesday shows that African-Americans in San Francisco run a greater risk of being arrested than Caucasians.
The Reentry Council of the City and County of San Francisco, which according to its website coordinates efforts to support adults exiting from local prison facilities, commissioned the report last November. It was prepared by the nonprofit W. Haywood Burns Institute.
The report finds that, in comparison to whites, blacks are 7.1 times more likely to be arrested, 11 times more likely to be booked into County Jail, and 10.3 times more likely to be convicted of a crime in San Francisco.
The disparity gap between whites and blacks arrested between 1994 and 2013 has decreased by 23 percent in California. However, that number is up 53 percent in San Francisco.
NBC Bay Area's Stephanie Chuang just talked to the public defender-- who's pointing to the report and demanding something change. (Published Tuesday, Jun 23, 2015) Police Chief Greg Suhr said that African-Americans make up 6 percent of the city’s population, but 50 percent of its homicide victims. They also represent 40 percent of those arrested and 44 percent of those booked into County Jail, according to the report.
But Suhr also noted that 40 percent of property-crime victims describe an African-American suspect, about the same percentage that is arrested.
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, who co-chairs the Reentry Council, deemed the report’s findings “damning” and “outrageous” -- especially in a city that prides itself on being progressive.
“It shows that African-Americans are more likely to be kept in custody, to be subject to higher bails, more likely to be convicted,” Adachi said.
The report also indicates that fewer blacks are able to stay out of jail prior to trial although they are more likely than their white counterparts to meet the necessary criteria for pretrial release.
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón believes the report is “very concerning.”
“There is a tremendous social and economic disparity here in the city, even more so than other parts of the country,” he said. The report suggests maintaining accurate ethnic and racial data and monitoring trends and disparities every quarter.
Adachi is now working with San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim to land funding for a Pre-Trial Detention Relief Unit, which will comprise two attorneys and two paralegals. The unit will be responsible for enabling people awaiting trial to access pretrial release programs, bail reduction and electronic monitoring.
I’d like to see some IQ stats intermingled in as well.
Because of the confederate flag in SC. Luckily that is being taken care of and all of the problems will soon go away.
Could it possibly be that African-Americans in San Francisco violate more laws???
In a sane world, the story would be about the disparity in the crime rate among African-Americans, not about the disparity in the arrest rate.
There’s something to be said about “Swatting the mosquito before it sucks out too much blood.”
The article says exactly that: 40% of property crimes report Black suspects, Black suspects account for 40% of the arrests.
Of course it could also be that racist SanFran White crime victims and witnesses erroneously and disproportionately claim the suspects were Black.
This is going to be amusing to watch. If Blacks really do commit 40% of the crime, lowering the rate at which they are arrested to match their numbers as a % of population ( so dropping arrests from 40% to 5%, I think?) is going to have all sorts of consequences given the massive change to the arrest risk/reward calculations people make before committing a crime.
Baltimore redux. Fewer arrests, skyrocketing rise in criminal behavior with no consequences.
It’s socially acceptable in their subculture. They aren’t raised by parents who discipline them severely for stepping out of line.
I actually think it would be less a Baltimore redux that a for-real The Purge.
Unlike Baltimore, San Fran is really affluent. Cut policing (to the tune of what? 80-90%?) and it’ll draw criminals like moths to a flame.
On a positive note, crime in Oakland would probably crater.
Of course the other option would be to increase arrests of other demographic groups dramatically to reduce the 40% rate as much as possible.
The little detail about who’s more likely to commit crime conveniently omitted.
So, Caucasians cannot be Americans?
What's up with that?
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