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Blacks are also about 4 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession. If that's your only source of information, you would believe it was because b
by enkid 5y ago
Blacks are also about 4 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession. If that's your only source of information, you would believe it was because blacks buy more marijuana, but that's not true. White and black use of marijuana is basically the same. This is why we shouldn't take felony statistics at face value for a demographic being "uniquely violent."
- gjs278 5y agothe main statistic is homocide and the police are not going to let that crime slide or use discretion when arresting for that
- BizarroLand 5y agoIt's very easy to claim that you are not racist and that your views are based on statistics when the statistics themselves only show what they show because of the effects of decades of directed, focused and intentional racism.
- bopbeepboop 5y agoThere aren’t enough corpses or missing persons for the murder ratio to be meaningfully wrong. There’s 21,000 murders a year, and we’d need to add 40,000+ to fix the ratio — with only 2,000 unfound missing persons a year. Your post “sounds smart” while proposing ridiculous things — like we’re somehow missing 40,000 murder victims a year. Okay — where are the missing murder victims?