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Old 01-21-2014, 09:59 AM
 
Location: Michigan
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If you're a man and you've made your way to age 23 without getting arrested, consider it a win. A new study finds that 38% of white men, 44% of Hispanic men, and 49% of black men have been arrested by that age for non-traffic-related crimes, the AP reports. Researchers looked at annual surveys from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, in which about 7,000 young people self-reported their history.

Half of Black Men Arrested by Age 23 - And roughly 40% of all men have been cuffed by that age: study
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Old 01-21-2014, 10:02 AM
 
Location: Philadelphia
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newjimcrow.com | The New Jim Crow

The War on "Drugs" has made Jim Crow laws systematic and just "part of policy". It's horrendous and has made The War on "Drugs" the longest and costliest war in American history.
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Old 01-21-2014, 10:12 AM
 
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Where was those 7000? Detroit? This study means nothing considering there are 44,000,000 African Americans......
It certainly could. It depends on how they were sampled. If it was done well, the margin of error for a sample size that large would be pretty small.
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Old 01-21-2014, 11:31 AM
 
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If you're a man and you've made your way to age 23 without getting arrested, consider it a win. A new study finds that 38% of white men, 44% of Hispanic men, and 49% of black men have been arrested by that age for non-traffic-related crimes, the AP reports. Researchers looked at annual surveys from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, in which about 7,000 young people self-reported their history.

Half of Black Men Arrested by Age 23 - And roughly 40% of all men have been cuffed by that age: study
No, the study found that 49% of people that self-reported on a BLS survey had been cuffed.

Anyone trying to extrapolate those numbers to the broader population is committing statistical abuse.
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Old 01-21-2014, 11:32 AM
 
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Don't do the crime and you won't do the time.

Simple words to live by.

Thieves and dope peddlers are by nature incredibly stupid.
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Old 01-21-2014, 11:32 AM
 
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It certainly could. It depends on how they were sampled. If it was done well, the margin of error for a sample size that large would be pretty small.
Self-reporting already invalidates the concept of sampling.

There is no fixing self-reporting with sampling.
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Old 01-21-2014, 11:34 AM
 
Location: USA
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Wouldn't surprise me at all. I have a thread discussing the issue of profiling. There is a much broader issue than that though as far as "Law Enforcement." The ENTIRE population has higher than normal incarceration rates while crime is still an issue.


The deeper you look into the issue the more corrupt and messy it gets.
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Old 01-21-2014, 11:35 AM
 
Location: USA
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Don't do the crime and you won't do the time.

Simple words to live by.

Thieves and dope peddlers are by nature incredibly stupid.
I'm sorry but I could care less what YOU think about marijuana. I'm tired of being harassed for it while half the country kills themselves with cigarettes and alcohol.



You know who is NOT doing the time?? Police officers. Politicians. Rich kids. Wall Street. Big Banks...
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Old 01-21-2014, 11:40 AM
 
Location: North America
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Statistics, in which about 7,000 young people self-reported their history.

Self-reported...yeah, ok, I guess it beats the living hell out of actually doing a sampling of ACTUAL arrests.
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Old 01-21-2014, 11:42 AM
 
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I'm sorry but I could care less what YOU think about marijuana. I'm tired of being harassed for it while half the country kills themselves with cigarettes and alcohol.



You know who is NOT doing the time?? Police officers. Politicians. Rich kids. Wall Street. Big Banks...
You got to catch them doing something illegal. Not something that offends your overdeveloped sense of liberal outrage.
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