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Originally posted by valkyrie
Here is a link to the 2004 "Persons Arrested" report from the FBI (.pdf). Personally, I'd rather look at the numbers themselves than consider reports from organizations with questionable motives.
According to the FBI, in 2004:
Of all arrestees for violent crimes, 60.4% were white, 28.5% were black, and the remaining 2.5% were of other races.
For all arrests, 70.5% of arrestees were white, 27.1% were black, and 2.4% were other races.
As a side note, 76.2% of arrestees were male and 82.2% of arrestees for violent crimes were male.
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To be fair, are hispanics considered white or black? It's rare that I've seen a government statistical report that doesn't account for hispanics seperately. I'm guessing that they're just considered "not black"?
Considering that latinos/mexicans are such a substantial part of our population (and prison population), this FBI report is quetsionable as far as its usefulness in determining exactly how many whites versus blacks are behind bars (unless you are going to argue that latinos and whites are the same for the purposes of racial statistic gathering).
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