The strange death of Freddie Gray

[Danzig]

Among those we do know were shot by police, black teens were 21 times more likely to be shot dead than their white counterparts.

“The 1,217 deadly police shootings from 2010 to 2012 captured in the federal data show that blacks, age 15 to 19, were killed at a rate of 31.17 per million, while just 1.47 per million white males in that age range died at the hands of police,” a new ProPublica report explains, noting that if whites were killed at the same ratio there would have been another 185 white deaths, just during that three-year period, just of those in that narrow age range.

To arrive at this statistic, ProPublica analyzed the list of 12,000 police shooting deaths that were self-reported by agencies to the Federal Bureau of Investigation between 1980 and 2012. Because this data is self-reported and departments are not required to submit information, this data likely significantly undercounts the number of shootings. Florida departments, for example, haven’t submitted data since 1997 and New York City hasn’t submitted data since 2007. And the FBI asks only for “justifiable homicide” figures, meaning in those instances where the shootings are most overtly viewed as unjustified or the litigation is ongoing, departments are less likely to report.

[Danzig]

and of course we know that prison sentences are longer for blacks than whites for the same crime, that blacks are more likely than whites to be given prison sentences...death row is also racially biased. those are facts....but some still believe race is no factor, when in fact study after study shows it very much is.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014...04463789858002

that's just one of many articles on the subject.
people need to quit pretending there's not an issue here. it needs to be accepted, faced, addressed. note in that article that since the scotus ruling, sentences returned to what they'd been before the guidelines were adopted.


here's another:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/we...ater.html?_r=0

note the disparity of searches conducted...and so often, whites are shown to be caught more often than others wih contraband, yet they are still searched less often! talk about perception vs reality!!

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Danzig

and of course we know that prison sentences are longer for blacks than whites for the same crime, that blacks are more likely than whites to be given prison sentences...death row is also racially biased. those are facts....but some still believe race is no factor, when in fact study after study shows it very much is.

Current U.S. Death Row Population by Race
BLACK 1,267 41.75%
WHITE 1,305 43.00%


Death Row Population Figures from NAACP-LDF "Death Row USA (October 1, 2014)"

Since the vast, vast majority of death row inmates are in for murder and not because of race, it seems necessary to determine what the racial makeup is of offenders committing murders. Using 2013 FBI stats (the latest available)

Total Murders 5,655
Whites 2,730 48.27%
Blacks 2,681 47.40%

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr...ender_2013.xls

So with whites committing 48.27% of all murders they occupy 43% of death row. While blacks committing 47.45% of all murders occupy 41.75% of death row. Doesn't seem to get any fairer than that!