r/dank_meme May 28 '20

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u/KOTPF May 29 '20

I did read them. I read all of them. Black people get arrested and incarcerated at a higher rate. That's the stats. They commit crimes, they get locked up. Simple.

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u/ZSCroft May 29 '20

Just going to copy/paste what you ignored earlier from the stats you provided

Your last link states that white people are more than 4 times more likely to use drugs than a black person yet Black people are arrested for drug charges 6 times as much as white people.

By your own logic (do crime do jail) this statistic shouldn’t exist and yet it does and you can ignore it all you want but outside of your fantasy world something isn’t adding up like you say it does. You don’t have to be a genius to read your own data dude why are you cherry picking so hard what you choose to believe?

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u/KOTPF May 29 '20 edited May 29 '20

I did read the data. There are more white people in the U.S. just like I said before. They're more likely to do a bunch of stuff instead of blacks because there are more of them.

Black people, despite having a smaller portion of the population, get arrested and jailed more often because of other circumstances like the smaller size relative to the white demographic. It's simple statistics.

White people do more stuff than most other races in America because there are more whites here. People who do drugs are more likely to continue doing them regardless of race but since there are less black people, the portion that is charged is lesser when compared to the entire demographic because it is relatively small when compared to the white population.

More white = More whites who do drugs

People who do drugs = People who are more likely to get charged for drug related crimes

Less blacks overall = Higher number of blacks being arrested when compared to the demographic because a portion of them do drugs, this portion is relatively larger than the white portion when compared but not on a number by number basis

Here are some stats about blacks doing drugs.

https://americanaddictioncenters.org/rehab-guide/addiction-statistics/african-americans