Who commits more crimes in the US...?

Question

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/jailrairtab.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_prison_population#Population_statistics
Carefully read these official govmt statistics. Pretty interesting , ha?
In 2005 there were 4.81 TIMES more black inmates than whites and almost 3 TIMES more back inmates than Hispanic. Let alone the fact blacks are only 18% of the US population, so the crime rates among them is OUTRAGEOSLY many fold the white or Hispanic.
Check again:numbers speak for themselves. So much for " rising crime" in the black ghetto called New Orleans...
Before answering, check the numbers again! And think twice. At least.

Answer 1

No ones perfect. When we got here, we had a disadvantage, we were slaves. When slavery was emancipated, we had a disadvantage, we were black, no one wanted us to succeed in raising our families and being in the middle class. We still have a disadvantage, the majority of us live in underprivileged neighbors. This is most likey because of all of our disadvantages in the past.
But the thing is, crime has to do more with economics. Poor people are more likely to commit crime than middle class or upper class; even if their white, black, hispanic, middle eastern, indian, etc.

If you got rid of all the black people, then another race would take over our statitics. And then you'd get rid of them. If you kept doing this until you were left with just whites, then eventually your own people would take over our statistics. What would you do then, start getting ride of white brown eyed people, and then white blue eyed, etc, until no one was left? Not everyone can be rich. The world doesn't work like that.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

.OK. If this is a sideways attempt at making a racist statement, which I believe it is, than let me point out that it is an old argument. Yes, the prisons are filled disproportionately with blacks. It has been that way for the better part of the last century to now. In the early 1900's 80% of New Yorkers had police records, and most of them were white but fewer people were sent to prison. 30 Years ago I had a Sociology professor who, when we were discussing this same subject, pointed out that jails aren't filled with all the criminals, just the ones who got caught. I could be that blacks are just worse at avoiding the police.
Yes, there is an inordinately high rate of crime and violence in Black neighborhoods. Poor Black neighborhoods. New Orleans was a terror show. I agree with Presidents Bush's recent statements that the destruction of New Orleans brought out a problem of deep seated poverty still in our nation. There should be no poverty in our country.
OH, by the way, I am NOT a Liberal! I'm a Conservative Republican. However, I believe that these types of arguments do nothing to improve situations, only attempt to brush them away with stupidity. You did some research, do some more.

Answer 4

Here's the population breakdown in the USA:
69% non-hispanic white
12.5% Hispanic
12.1% non-Hispanic Black
3.6% Asian
0.7% Native American/Alaskan

Your argument faces a logical fallacy: Your data is that Prison Rates among blacks are roughly 25 times higher than whites, yet you claim that Crime Rates are higher. That may be true, but it is not necessarily supported by your data, you made a baseless inference. It may be that more blacks are caught, or that more blacks when caught are convicted. I'm not saying the crime rates are higher or lower than you allege, I'm just saying there are other explanations you do not investigate or address. .

Answer 5

Good for you, pat yourself on the back. What does this have to do with immigration? The category is not racism.

Your prison stats are about ethnic percentages of inmates who were CAUGHT, tried, and imprisoned.

Now think about how much crime whites (the majority of the US population) GET AWAY WITH? Identity theft, forgeries, embezzlement, scams, fraud, money laundering, counterfeiting, billions of dollars stolen known as white collar crimes. Every now and then law enforcement will track down a pedophile, or a serial killer. There are whites invovled in murder-suicides, mass murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and crystal meth manufacturers (aka drug dealers). There are white people involved in hit-and-run accidents, home burglaries. There are whites involved in prostitution. Whites are the majority of the US population, so they have a hand in committing more crimes, and many are very smart not to get themselves caught, and use legal loopholes to stay out of prison.

So my answer to your question - who commits more crimes is white people. Who is busted more for crimes - blacks. Who are the majority of drug smugglers? Latinos. Latinos are also engaged in gang-related crimes (including murder), auto theft, prostitution, identity theft, shoplifting, welfare fraud, and the list goes on and on. Think Latinos are less guilty of commiting crimes than blacks? Think again. With the Latino population growing in this country by way of ILLEGAL immigration, those prison imate populations will change drastically, the brown people will outnumber the blacks soon enough.

ALL races in the US engage in criminal activity of some sort or another ------to use stats like these to make a point is simply racist against blacks. Yes, there are all kinds of crimes committed by black people, but the same crimes blcks are imprisoned for, are also committed by other races. No race in this country is innocent or better than the other because of these government statistics.

Answer 6

I believe that there's illegal aliens in these gangs too, skin color matters a lot less than the basic concept of 'by their deeds ye shall know them', and if a person, regardless of ethnicity or nationality, decides to start trying to 'own' our streets, that's the time that the general citizenry need to reclaim the streets from such thugs by banding together, invoking the law and law enforcement, and banishing such people from their communities. Stands to reason, and it's only fair, don't you think?
Do you want to live next door to a crack dealer? I don't. Matter of fact, I'd rather not see ANY gangs in our country, period, black, white, latino, asian, martian, nor otherwise. This is the 21st century, time to stop hunting in packs, and find jobs. The future is now, participate, or get left behind...I have met intelligent, civil, professional people of just about every ethnic makeup there is, and I've met people also from most ethnicities that I would not want to encounter in a dark alley or anywhere else for that matter.
You've got your upstanding people, you got your in-betweens, and you've got your creeps and your criminals, and skin color won't tell you who's who, plain as that. 'By their deeds ye shall know them'...but I STILL don't support illegal immigration.

Answer 7

Your point is to point fingers at the blacks, it seems to me. A CRIME IS A CRIME no matter who commits it. Whoever commits a crime should be punished. That's all the American people should be concerned about. You are one reason why there is still racism going on. You want us all to agree with you that blacks commit more crimes? Why? Just point a finger at the one who commits the crime, and leave race out of it. Who cares about the statistics. Instead of rating the amount of crimes each race commits, they should be more worried about lowering the crime rate no matter where it is or who commits it.

Answer 8

There is a reality - when one is a minority - you will either be above the norm when it comes to crime statistics or below - that's how it works. BTW American-Americans are a little over 11% of the national population.

Answer 9

On those stats did it also state whites are most likely able to afford a lawyer to get them off. I'm sure they don't report that part?

And I'm not making excuses for the black community. It is a shame that any person feels the need to do harm to any other person.

Answer 10

Bunt, if people legally here, citizens, whom we can't deport, commit crime, we are stuck with it. Keeping a policy that allows in a population sized at 4 to 5% of our population and 25 to 30% of our prison population is just stupid, whatever other crime we are stuck with already. And besides, illegal immigrants are not all hispanic. It is illegals, not hispanics that we are discussing.