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Originally Posted by Lasereth
Oh come on, let's take off our sensitivity veils. You want a reference, here it is: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
The FBI, just like I said. Click on any year and wade through some of those PDFs.
I work at a police station so I see the crime stats every single day of the year. You can wear your sensitivity veil and pretend that blacks don't commit crimes more often than whites and that pointing it out is "intellectual wankery" but I took mine off long ago and realized that knowing blacks are more likely to commit a crime isn't racist, it's observatory.
I'm not gonna let an article (that I did read through entirely) say that there's subconscious prejudice "deep down inside that we act on" when for me it's simply knowing the facts. I respect black people the same as I respect white people but you're full of shit if you think that black crime rates are racist.
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This was exactly why I made the comment I did.
I KNOW you're right - if distribution of criminals was random through society, there would be fewer black criminals, and more white ones.
However - WHY the blacks are more likely to turn to crime in the US and UK is not often addressed.
I contend that what colour you are has little or no impact on how likely you are to become a criminal.
Your upbringing is the key factor, and it is possible to suggest that "because of prejudice, blacks are held down, and people at the bottom of the pile become criminals more often than ones at the top".
In otherwords, racism causes criminality, not the other way round. If we could crack racist assumptions, we might crack criminality.