I hate that Baltimoreans of other races lump all... (California: crimes, gated)

[Ilovethecommunity]

Originally Posted by Richard Martin

What he said was that crimes are committed at a rate that is equal to the racial makeup of the area. I live in Greenville NC which is over 60% white. Violent crime here is committed by blacks at a great number over whites.

There are still communities high crime communities where whites commit more crimes than blacks.

[Do a Barrel Roll]

And this is one of the reasons why I did not move to Baltimore, despite being more friendly and laid back than the next major city to its south. But it seems like I wouldn't have ever seen Baltimore's laid back side as a full-fledged citizen of the city anyway.

Originally Posted by Richard Martin

There is a thread here wondering whether Maryland is north or south.

Welcome to the south. Significant areas of Maryland are very segregated. With the headquarters of the NAACP being in Baltimore, I've often wondered why they allow this.

This is not a North-South issue. Most Marylanders today are culturally similar to people in New Jersey and Massachusetts. And I can tell you that people from those states are pretty damn racially biased against blacks.

[K-Luv]

I meant as a whole, all crime. Whites commit somewhere near 70% of the crime in the U.S.

Originally Posted by The_Fairfaxian

This is not a North-South issue. Most Marylanders today are culturally similar to people in New Jersey and Massachusetts. And I can tell you that people from those states are pretty damn racially biased against blacks.

Yeah, Mass., definitely. I don't see how/why it is a blue state.

[Richard Martin]

Originally Posted by K-Luv

I meant as a whole, all crime. Whites commit somewhere near 70% of the crime in the U.S.

Blacks are 34.9% of the prison population
Hispanics are 16.3% of the prison population
Whites are 48% of the prison population
The other less than 1% is asians, American Indians etc.

Blacks are incarcerated at a rate of 3161 per 100,000
Whites are incarcerated at a rate of 487 per 100,000

[K-Luv]

Originally Posted by Richard Martin

Blacks are 34.9% of the prison population
Hispanics are 16.3% of the prison population
Whites are 48% of the prison population
The other less than 1% is asians, American Indians etc.

Blacks are incarcerated at a rate of 3161 per 100,000
Whites are incarcerated at a rate of 487 per 100,000

I am not disputing the rates of incarceration. I am talking about ALL crime, not just felonies or violent crimes.

Blacks are convicted at a disproportional rate. If I remember correctly(so do not quote me on this, I'm too lazy at the moment to do a Google search), in 2008 when new DNA evidence was available/presented in cases involving black convicts, 168 out of 200 convictions were over-turned as the result.

[NCOriolesfan]

Originally Posted by Ilovethecommunity

There are still communities high crime communities where whites commit more crimes than blacks.

Where might that be?

[NCOriolesfan]

Originally Posted by The_Fairfaxian

And this is one of the reasons why I did not move to Baltimore, despite being more friendly and laid back than the next major city to its south. But it seems like I wouldn't have ever seen Baltimore's laid back side as a full-fledged citizen of the city anyway.


This is not a North-South issue. Most Marylanders today are culturally similar to people in New Jersey and Massachusetts. And I can tell you that people from those states are pretty damn racially biased against blacks.

And does anyone wonder why that is? Or should we just toss around words like "racist"? Why not ask why it is people look at black people the way they do?

[Richard Martin]

Originally Posted by K-Luv

I am not disputing the rates of incarceration. I am talking about ALL crime, not just felonies or violent crimes.

The incarceration rates are for all crime.

[Infinite_heights77]

Baltimore is just an ignorant town..plain and simple!!!

[ddiva]

Originally Posted by GunsMass

Isn't Baltimore 63.7% black? Aren't a large amount of our politicians and police officers black?

I don't see how you could possibly complain about this in Baltimore today.

Yes, that's pretty much true about Baltimore's population. From my experience, most of the poor experiences that I've had with people of other races are those who live outside of Baltimore. I work at a popular tourist place down at the Inner Harbor and it's been a couple of times when I had to shut my mouth so that I wouldn't get fired or written up.

Politicians can't do much when it comes to race relations. Once a person is a racist, there isn't much that one can do to change their mind. Don't even get me started on the cops! My boyfriend is Black (well actually Creole but he looks more Black) and he's been racially profiled by both Black and White just for walking home in our neighborhood. He doesn't have a record and I'm tired of people having this thought in their mind that "young Black man=drug dealer/criminal" or anything else negative.

If me and my boyfriends had the funds, we would have been moved.