(December 6, 2014 at 7:45 pm)Aractus Wrote: Going by this page, it shows the white prisoner population to be 59%. It seems true that whites are about 78%, and according to Wikipedia blacks are 12.4% of the population, but 37.4% of the prison inmate population.
As I said it's a statistical fact that there are many more criminals in the African American community than there is in the non African American community.
Statistically, sure. Does that mean that black Americans are more prone to crime? Or does it mean that they've been on the receiving end of profiles, stereotypes, and imbalanced patrol patterns -- or discriminatory payscales, substantially inferior school systems, and so on?
I think you're confusing correlation and causation with the information at hand. There are several different potential explanations for the data we have, and they're woven in a complex manner.
(December 6, 2014 at 7:45 pm)Aractus Wrote: It probably is around 10x, like it is here in Australia with Aboriginals. And I can assure you it has nothing to do with Aboriginals being profiled targeted and discriminated against by the police as some people seem to be claiming.
Why are you touting information about Australia as support for your claims about America?
