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Half of black men in the US will be arrested before they turn 23

Translation: "A black man is familiar with freedom in America. Here it is, uncle Tom's cabin."

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By age 23, 49 percent of black males, 44 percent of Hispanic males and 38 percent of white males have been arrested.
https://www.albany.edu/news/45558.php
- Jesus fucking shit thats horrifying
- Grim
  
  it helps keep the for-profit business in business, as being arrested makes it you ineligible for most military services, not all but the more specialize ones will deny you based on that, it still negotiable, except for felony, or SA any sex related crimes.
- All of those sound insanely high. If you take a group of 10 random adult men from the US, roughly four of them have been arrested?
  Is a lot of it for underage drinking because that law is so far from lived reality?
  
  Roughly 25% of the country will be arrested, or put on probation at least once in their lives. That's been a steady statistic since the early '90s when Clinton signed his crime bill.
  
  I got arrested as a kid for skipping school! I was being sexually assaulted in the school bathroom and was terrified of leaving the house, but obviously the way to solve that was cuffing me and throwing me in juvie.
  
  I'm betting that this counts field arrests and not just people that are brought to the station, booked, and detained. By that definition, my close friend circle in high school would have been right in line with this numbers.
  I, a white cis-man, was technically arrested twice before I was 23 (once for possession of alcohol and once for possession of marijuana) but I've never been brought to the station or read my rights. Both times a field arrest report was filled out and I was issued an appearance ticket with a court date. This was in NY so your experiences with the same crimes might be wildly different.
  
  Roughly four by age 23. If you consider all the male population, the numbers would probably be considerably higher. It's indeed hard to believe...
  
  shoplifting probably being a contributor, as people steal felony worth sometimes, or prior to them demoting the actual charges to an actual misdeameanor, even then its still an arrest.
- And that is based on data only up to 2008. You know that's so much worse now.
- Maybe we just arrest people and throw them in jail way too fucking much. Land of the imprisoned, home of the DA
  
  I called 911 as the victim of DV, they came and arrested both of us. The system is so broken.
- That is an insane percentage, holy crap.
  
  also preferentially targeting Race too, and then income wise.
- I'm in my 40s and have met, I don't know, at least several hundred people over my lifetime more than once. At least as far as I know none of them has been in actual prison. Few have spent their night on the jail when getting too drunk (and obviously done some stupid shit while wasted) and police have "offered" them a bed to sober up but that's it.
  Obviously not in the US. I can't even imagine society where nearly every other male you encounter would've been in prison at some point.
  
  Same, except I am in the US. I suspect this is highly stratified by class, such that either nobody you know has been arrested or everybody you know has been arrested.
  
  us does have the highest amount PRISONERS in the world, and incarceration rate. recividism is pretty high, as there is almost non-existent rehabilitation for offendors. also the fact they dont prepare inmates for the outside world years later, when things changed, so its almost impossible to get a job, so they commit another crime just so they stay in prison.
  
  I was reading your comment, trying to decide if you're a liar or just that bougie. Then second paragraph. Most of my friends have been arrested at least once. I've been four times.
  It is important here to note that in the US, prison is for sentences over one year and jail is under one year. That is not strictly 100% true but it's good enough to sort out the jail/prison terms problem. I've only been to prison to do some work. It was maximum security for what it's worth, and it was much nicer than any jail I've been too. People acted normally instead of totally fucking unhinged.
  I'd rather do a year in prison than six months in jail.
- Police state
- and 38 percent of white males
  The headline is bad, but my expectation would have been something low like 1% for white men. 30% worse treatment for black men is bad, but it is not the expected 5000%.
  
  Do you live in the US? Most people I know have been arrested.
- Arrest is different from imprisonment, it must be noted.
- Why have so many people have been arrested in the US? This is crazy ridiculous.
  
  Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction —US 13th Amendment
  Capitalism and Statism. That's why
  
  i was detained a well known chain store in the early 2000s for lifting, and at the same time they also ignored a tall white guy who went through security devices which caused it to beep, they completely ignored them and focused on me.
  worst if your A POC, they target certain races in certain areas. back 90s 2000s i heard they went after alot of asians in LA area because of alleged gang activity. they almost never target affluent or near affluent areas.
  if you a poc walking near even certain groups of white people you will get the immediate dirty look from patrons and even the employees of certains business sometimes or even change thier body language, never seen that when a white person does that.
- America bad
  unironically
- Thank you providing an actual source!
  This title is like some boomer FaceBook shit other wise. That would normally be the minority’s are taking our jobs; shit..:

What was that? The land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy.
- Is this an anti-flag lyric? It sounds so familiar
  edit: wait it's rage against the machine isn't it
- Can't waste the day when the night brings a hearse. So make a move and plead the 5th 'cause you can't plead the 1st.
- free from rights.

The takeaway here should be that poverty creates crime.
- and that systemic racism, ie deliberate policies, maintain the status quo and keep black and non white communities poor, and even some white communities are kept poor.
  
  they need poor whites, so they can drum up racism, and and have solid voter base, also useful cannon fodder for LEO and MAYBE the military.
- It's always been an absolute and complete source of bafflement to me how many people don't seem to get this. I'm a (relatively) high earner and have no hesitation voting for the most left wing candidate on the ballot, because I think it represents good value to pay a few extra percent in tax to not have to be scared walking down the street or to keep checking my home security cameras. What's the point having wealth if I'm constantly having to protect it?

Damn. Glad I'll never go to that backwards ass shithole country.

Land of the free...
I'd like to compare with stats for other parts of the world.
- US has more people imprisoned than China. Not per capita, total.
  Yep
  
  also china loves westerners living in the country as well, particularly if you are white.

And if MAGA has their way, the other half will be shot.

Republicans: The other half are guilty of something, we just haven’t got to them yet.

Republicans will read this headline and use this stat to justify their racism - calling it a flaw in black men, instead of what it really is, a flaw in police institutions.

Strange prediction

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