Comment by motoxpro
2 days ago
Wait, you do know there are less black people in the US than white people so doing a ratio on absolute murder numbers is wild right? That makes that .92 useless.
2021. People incarcerated in state or federal prisons by race and ethnicity. Race, ethnicity % of US population % of incarcerated population Incarceration rate (per 100,000)
White (non-Hispanic) 59 31 181 Hispanic 19 24 434 Black 14 32 901
Did you just ignore the data where the whites are 181/100,000 and blacks are 901/100,000. From an absolute perspective they are close but as a percentage of ethnic population it's not even close.
I feel like this is why its hard to have a convo on the internet. Even when we have data, it's impossible to see it the same way.
> so doing a ratio on absolute murder numbers is wild right?
Only that's not what I did. Read again - "per crime committed, blacks are less, not more, likely to be jailed".
What I compared was prison population, divided by number of homicides committed, for whites and blacks. It's strange how rarely this is done, because without it, it must look like the courts are fantastically biased against men, with how many more of them there are in jail than women.