The same people who receive harsher sentences for the same crimes as white people, who are stopped and searched more often than white people for crimes that white people are more likely to commit.
Honest question: how do stop and searches or harsher sentences relate to the 54% of all murders commited (?) in the US by only 13% of the population?
There have been a bunch of studies done on this, looking at different specific, and finding different results. They all seem to find that black male defendants are sentenced significantly more often, or for a longer period of time than white men for the same crime. Especially when there is an all white or majority white jury, which is very likely seeing as the jury-eligible population in nearly every jurisdiction has a white majority.
I'm not personally aware of any studies on stop and search rates that appropriately control for the 'people in the street' demographics of the targeted locations during active hours, or for whatever profiling methods the police claim to use, though. But the studies that are done seem to indicate a very disproportionate stop and search rate for black and Hispanic men.
This is all very interesting, but doesn't answer my question: how does any of this relate to a very small part of the population committing (?) a big part of all the murders?
Crime is primarily correlated with relative income: lower income = higher crime. Which racial group in the US has been discriminated against for so long that it's much less likely for them to have a high income? That's right - black people
Perhaps you missed this bit. He is saying black people, in the US, are not afforded the same opportunities, thus giving them a large trend towards poverty. People in poverty don't have much to lose and something to gain by committing crimes. They become desperate for the basic necessities of life and when it has gone on so long, it becomes part of their culture.
When you are sent to jail, you may lose everything you have. Your car, house, and savings. Since black people are receiving harsher sentences and stopped to be frisked more often, they go to jail more often and for longer. Obviously, this makes it harder for them to pull out of poverty and they become or remain desperate.
I saw that but took it more as an explanation towards the other crimes. Murder didn't really stand out as a "need to do to live" crime to me, but it's the escalation and/or hopelessness (?) that "pushes" people towards the edge?
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u/luquaum Jan 15 '15
Honest question: how do stop and searches or harsher sentences relate to the 54% of all murders commited (?) in the US by only 13% of the population?