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Your conservative buddies are saying that repeatedly right here in this thread.This is a common song here at USMB.
“BUT BLACKS COMMIT MORE CRIMES”: Scholars discuss conservative logic
Todd Beer on July 25, 2016
Since 2014 there has been renewed interest, concern, and protest regarding the police use of deadly force against unarmed Blacks. Various conservative commentators and publications, as well as comments on other posts to this blog, have implied that the reason so many Blacks are killed by police is that Blacks are more likely to be involved in violent crime. For example, in an article in the National Review, David French writes, “Moreover, racial disparities in the use of force are largely explained by racial disparities in criminality. Different American demographics commit crimes at different rates, so it stands to reason that those who commit more crimes will confront the police more often.”
Below is the transcript of a conversation regarding this issue I had with three scholars, all of whom have studied the interaction of police and the African American community.
The scholars are:
RASHAWN RAY, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland.
CODY ROSS, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
DON TOMASKOVIC-DEVEY, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Rashawn:
"The problem with this type of logic is that we assume that an entire group of people is responsible for the actions of some and that the entire group should be criminalized for it."
So in other words, because of the perception that Blacks commit more crimes this somehow justifies the fact that Black people are actually policed more. The problem is that this shouldn’t be the case. First, an overwhelming percentage of Blacks are not criminals and those that have been convicted of crimes, studies show that roughly 75% of Blacks in prison are in prison for nonviolent drug offenses. The other narrative is that Black neighborhoods are ubiquitously framed as being problematic and crime prone when in fact there are a plethora of predominantly Black neighborhoods around the country, one of which I happen to live in, that has extremely low crime rates and are not part of the narrative. On the other end of the spectrum, there are predominantly White neighborhoods that have high crime rates, but for some reason we leave these two types of neighborhoods out of the narrative as it relates to crime.
So what is happening is that an entire group of people who overwhelmingly are not committing crime and are not guilty, end up being criminalized because of the logic that people have about this.
“BUT BLACKS COMMIT MORE CRIMES”: Scholars discuss conservative logic - Sociology Toolbox
Mangling of the language.. NOBODY SAYS (at least nobody well-read) that "Blacks commit more crimes"... NO fucking BODY...
What is correct is that blacks, especially in predominately black areas "ARE MORE LIKELY" to commit crimes.
The 2 assertions are entirely different and only confusing to you because you refuse to learn the basics of statistics...