Sell Oprah The Bag

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Originally Posted by Danzig

found it eye opening to see that altho the races all equally commit crime, or use drugs, that people of color are stopped more often and arrested more often than white people. most people on death row are there for killing a white person, whereas people who murder someone of color are almost never given that penalty.

Wish that were true with Chicago's murder problem but it's not.

From City homicide stats for 2011

1) 75% of all murder victims were African American

2) 70% of murder offenders were African American (20% were Hispanic)

BTW 77% of victims had a prior record and 87% of offenders had a prior.

https://portal.chicagopolice.org/por...ports/MA11.pdf

When you consider the racial makeup of the city (32% being African American) the fact that nearly all offenders are male (half of 32% or 16%) and that 90% plus of offenders are aged 16-30 (which represents roughly 20% of the population) 20% of 16% leaves you with 3.2% of the general public representing almost 70% of murderers.

At least in Chicago (not sure of the rest of the country) if you're a African American male between 16-30 you may be stopped because of statistics rather than any notion of racism. After all you're also the most likely to become a victim only because you're African American and statistically are a target for other African Americans.

But first let's get that apology and $35K purse Oprah is owed.