(December 6, 2014 at 7:45 pm)Aractus Wrote:(December 6, 2014 at 10:48 am)Losty Wrote: Lolwut? Maybe I'm just reading this wrong...but the 2013 census estimate shows something like 78% of Americans being white.Oops I did get that statistic wrong. What I should have said was not that by volume they are the majority of the prison population, but that they are the majority by volume of poor neighbourhoods, which is where criminal activity mostly occurs.
Statistically white people are more likely to commit most crimes.
I didn't get my main one wrong which is that Aboriginals are around 10x more likely to be incarcerated than non-Aboriginal Australians.
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. 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.
(December 6, 2014 at 9:57 am)Chad32 Wrote: they patrol the black and hispanic neighborhoods.Incorrect. They patrol the poor neighbourhoods, which are themselves predominately occupied by Black and Hispanic people.
It is true that the percent of black prisoners is huge compared to the percent of black people in the overall population. How does this prove that there are more black criminal, though? I think it does not. It proves that white people are less likely to to be caught, less likely to be charged, and more likely to get off on a warning or other punishment that doesn't include time in prison.