big_al_the_riddler on Yik Yak | The same people who bring up the “50%” statistic about black crime rates lose their fucking minds when you bring up the “40%” statistic about cops

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big_al_the_riddler

The same people who bring up the “50%” statistic about black crime rates lose their fucking minds when you bring up the “40%” statistic about cops

Anonymous 2w

What’s more interesting about those stats is one is borne out of poverty and circumstance, the other is entirely a choice

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Anonymous 2w

And it’s not even “Black people commit 50% of the crime” it’s about prison populations (not actually indicative of who commits crime. Even in the way people use it, it’s posed in this weird sort of colorblind way that leaves you with 2 possible conclusions: 1, there is something inherently wrong with Black people (easy), or 2, the system advantages white people and disadvantages Black people (hard, requires questioning systems)

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Anonymous 2w

It’s so fucking baffling to me that people still cite it.

Anonymous

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1350 is about arrest rates, not actual crimes committed, so it's not even really about "poverty and circumstance"; unless by "poverty and circumstance" you mean that police disproportionately target black and poor people. black ppl commit crimes at around the same rates as their white counterparts; they're just arrested more and punished more severely