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According 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 violen
by MikeUt 6y ago
According 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