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>whites ... , if anything, are over-represented in prison The prison population statistics from the BOP only account for federal prisons, which is less than 10
by kurikuri 6y ago
>whites ... , if anything, are over-represented in prison
The prison population statistics from the BOP only account for federal prisons, which is less than 10% of the incarcerated US population. In your cited Wikipedia source, the number of homicides tallied by the FBI (in Wikipedia’s [44]) totals around 6000, or around 5% of the size of the number of BOP inmates. These two figures do not come together to provide your conclusion at all.
- MikeUt 6y agoAccording to [1], 30% of all prisoners are non-Hispanic white, which is close to the numbers given for federal prisons. And I used homicide as proxy for violent crime, since if I had used anything else, you would have claimed the numbers can't be trusted due to over-policing and police racial bias. To get around that bias, you can also look at the national crime victimization survey [2], which does not involve the police, and paints a similar picture. Again, I fail to see any reason why the Times explicitly excluded almost a third of all prisoners, for which you needed no justification. [1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/05/06/share-of-black-white-hispanic-americans-in-prison-2018-vs-2006/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/05/06/share-of-bl... [2] https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/revcoa18.pdf https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/revcoa18.pdf