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You seem to love to trot out the "1 in 3" statistic, and have done it several times in this thread. Maybe time to look behind this catchy headline: https://www

• whimsicalism 5y ago
  1. I don't see how "slightly more than 1 in 4" is all that better. 2. I used the past tense intentionally. It is true that it is no longer 1 in 3 today, but the rates were much higher in the 80s and 90s. 3. In 1997, "one in three young African-American men are incarcerated, or on probation or parole" In my hometown (Washington, DC), this number was closer to 50%.