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That's also very good to point out. Please note I quoted the article. You point out a bias in the statistic. Of the imprisoned population. What are the percent

• danielvf 10y ago
  I did some research on this last year. Here's what I found: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10318406 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10318406
• Nadya 10y ago
  You can see 4 categories here: http://felonvoting.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=004339 http://felonvoting.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=0... Drugs and violent crime are the majority. So now we can get a breakdown of race. You can see a minor (and slightly misleading, I'll explain) breakdown by race here: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/table-43 https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/... The reason the above table is "a bit misleading" is because FBI tracks "Hispanic" as "White". Most people tend to think of "Hispanic" being separate. You'll need to investigate a bit for accurate data/studies regarding this (because I'm not going to while at work), but if I recall "Hispanic" commit roughly equivalent amount of crime as "Black". Note that this is arrests, not convictions, and it is also possible there is racial bias in courts where Hispanic/Blacks are more likely to be convicted for violent/drug-related crimes and thus over-represent themselves in prisons. Honestly, the data isn't useful because there are too many unknown variables to draw any meaningful conclusions but many people with racially motivated beliefs love to point at this data.