Translation: “A black man is familiar with freedom in America. Here it is, uncle Tom’s cabin.”
Free all of them, I don’t care what crime they committed this racist system can’t try them fairly
The takeaway here should be that poverty creates crime.
and that systemic racism, ie deliberate policies, maintain the status quo and keep black and non white communities poor, and even some white communities are kept poor.
Land of the free…
I’d like to compare with stats for other parts of the world.
Damn. Glad I’ll never go to that backwards ass shithole country.
What was that? The land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy.
Can’t waste the day when the night brings a hearse. So make a move and plead the 5th 'cause you can’t plead the 1st.
Is this an anti-flag lyric? It sounds so familiar
edit: wait it’s rage against the machine Isn’t it
By age 23, 49 percent of black males, 44 percent of Hispanic males and 38 percent of white males have been arrested.
Maybe we just arrest people and throw them in jail way too fucking much. Land of the imprisoned, home of the DA
I called 911 as the victim of DV, they came and arrested both of us. The system is so broken.
Arrest is different from imprisonment, it must be noted.
Why have so many people have been arrested in the US? This is crazy ridiculous.
Police state
I’m in my 40s and have ment, I don’t know, at least several hundred people over my lifetime more than once. At least as far as I know none of them has been in actual prison. Few have spent their night on the jail when getting too drunk (and obviously done some stupid shit while wasted) and police have “offered” them a bed to sober up but that’s it.
Obviously not in the US. I can’t even imagine society where nearly every other male you encounter would’ve been in prison at some point.
us does have the highest amount PRISONERS in the world, and incarceration rate. recividism is pretty high, as there is almost non-existent rehabilitation for offendors. also the fact they dont prepare inmates for the outside world years later, when things changed, so its almost impossible to get a job, so they commit another crime just so they stay in prison.
I was reading your comment, trying to decide if you’re a liar or just that bougie. Then second paragraph. Most of my friends have been arrested at least once. I’ve been four times.
It is important here to note that in the US, prison is for sentences over one year and jail is under one year. That is not strictly 100% true but it’s good enough to sort out the jail/prison terms problem. I’ve only been to prison to do some work. It was maximum security for what it’s worth, and it was much nicer than any jail I’ve been too. People acted normally instead of totally fucking unhinged.
I’d rather do a year in prison than six months in jail.
Same, except I am in the US. I suspect this is highly stratified by class, such that either nobody you know has been arrested or everybody you know has been arrested.
White male who grew up in Idaho here.
I have been arrested on several occasions and so have a number of my friends.
I would not consider myself poor or lower class either. Id assume your theory holds some weight, but I’d also assume it follows a lot of trends we wouldn’t expect as well.
Yeah. I’ve (unfortunately) been in the US for the last few years. I’m at an university though, so most of my American peers come from a fairy rich (and mostly white) background. None of them have ever been arrested.
and 38 percent of white males
The headline is bad, but my expectation would have been something low like 1% for white men. 30% worse treatment for black men is bad, but it is not the expected 5000%.
Do you live in the US? Most people I know have been arrested.
All of those sound insanely high. If you take a group of 10 random adult men from the US, roughly four of them have been arrested?
Is a lot of it for underage drinking because that law is so far from lived reality?
shoplifting probably being a contributor, as people steal felony worth sometimes, or prior to them demoting the actual charges to an actual misdeameanor, even then its still an arrest.
I got arrested as a kid for skipping school! I was being sexually assaulted in the school bathroom and was terrified of leaving the house, but obviously the way to solve that was cuffing me and throwing me in juvie.
Wow that’s fucked. In my country the kids going to school is the parents legal responsibility, they can actually get fined if the child is delinquent. But never would the child be arrested.
I’m very sorry that happened to you, both the sexual assault and the police treatment.
I’m betting that this counts field arrests and not just people that are brought to the station, booked, and detained. By that definition, my close friend circle in high school would have been right in line with this numbers.
I, a white cis-man, was technically arrested twice before I was 23 (once for possession of alcohol and once for possession of marijuana) but I’ve never been brought to the station or read my rights. Both times a field arrest report was filled out and I was issued an appearance ticket with a court date. This was in NY so your experiences with the same crimes might be wildly different.
I’m betting that this counts field arrests
Does this include things like traffic stops, I wonder?
Roughly 25% of the country will be arrested, or put on probation at least once in their lives. That’s been a steady statistic since the early '90s when Clinton signed his crime bill.
Right, but this headline says age 23… hard to believe that!
And that is based on data only up to 2008. You know that’s so much worse now.
That is an insane percentage, holy crap.
also preferentially targeting Race too, and then income wise.
Jesus fucking shit thats horrifying
Grim
it helps keep the for-profit business in business, as being arrested makes it you ineligible for most military services, not all but the more specialize ones will deny you based on that, it still negotiable, except for felony, or SA any sex related crimes.
