Racial Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System: A Myth
I've posted about this before. Seems I was wrong.
Seems I was buying into the SJW Koolaid again.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886913000470#!
One of the most consistent findings in the criminological literature is that African American males are arrested, convicted, and incarcerated at rates that far exceed those of any other racial or ethnic group. This racial disparity is frequently interpreted as evidence that the criminal justice system is racist and biased against African American males. Much of the existing literature purportedly supporting this interpretation, however, fails to estimate properly specified statistical models that control for a range of individual-level factors....
This racial disparity, however, was completely accounted for after including covariates for self-reported lifetime violence and IQ. Implications of this study are discussed and avenues for future research are offered.
Interesting topic.
Also read another study on this same topic that stated black males are arrested for violent crimes at rates 3.6 times (per capita) the rate of white males despite being a significantly smaller minority. And that this pointed to the fact that the system is clearly has a bias against black males, especially.
But when the data is examined a bit closer, they represented 6x the rate of violent crime but only 3.6 times the arrest rate meaning that white males, relative to black males, are over-arrested. Another way to look at it is black males are arrested at a lower proportional rate to white males for violent crime.
But why?
"If one considers the absolute number of offenders and it turns out there are a larger number of offenders from Group A than Group B, then it stands to reason that Group A is the greater threat in terms of likelihood of criminal acts," said Lorie Fridell, a criminologist at the University of South Florida.Robert Brame, a criminology professor at the University of South Carolina, echoed Fridell’s assessment.
"The statistical fact is that you’re more likely to be a victim of a white perpetrator than a black one just because there are so many more whites in the population," Brame said.
But, Brame, continued, it is not enough to speak of either the total number or the population-based rate.
This is not a whites vs. blacks debate. I don't want to get into race-wars and talk about which race is superior because I think that's bullshit. I've stated multiple times that our "Black Violent Crime Problem" is not a race problem at all: it's a black culture and socio-economic problem.
Really, what I'd like to focus on is the SJW falsehoods that all of us are been force-fed. The idea that the American Criminal Justice System is racist is so entrenched in our thinking that almost no one, even highly educated people, will state otherwise. I studied criminology in college (not as a major) and I was still misled.