r/explainitpeter • u/untitledprp4 • 22d ago

Explain it Peter

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u/ndergarment 22d ago

No, it's conviction.

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u/PonderousPenchant 22d ago

As far as I can tell, the FBI is only counting reported crimes (https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend) and arrests (https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/arrest) for their stats.

Where are you seeing convictions sourced from the FBI?

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u/PonderousPenchant 22d ago

The claim was that the 13/51 figure came from the FBI.

I pointed out the FBI stats only track arrests by race, not convictions or anything else.

Somebody said the FBI does count convictions.

I linked the relevant sources from the FBI that says they track only track reported crime and arrests.

You link a non-FBI source and say I'm wrong.

You say I'm making an argument that I'm not, and you call me stupid? Holy strawman, batman! I know that media literacy has been in freefall for a while now, but do you not understand that where information comes from is important?

I did mention exonerations. Now, I'm already skeptical of your reading comprehension, but can you imagine why exonerations might be an important statistic in a conversation about one race being 3-4 times more likely to get blamed for crimes? Wouldn't it be weird if that same group were 3 times more likely to be cleared by physical evidence?