Forgive me for not directly quoting you,
Coyote, but the quote system doesn't seem to like you tonight, so in the interests of simplicity, I will tag you instead.
1. Basic math dictates that more whites are on death row than blacks, as seen here:
White 1,334 (43.10%)
Black 1,291 (41.71%)
That makes your premise incorrect. By proportion perhaps, but given the larger white population, there will naturally be more white death row inmates. Math.
2.
"41% are black...yet blacks make up only 14% of our population."
And? Yet, only 1,291 of them are on death row. That's roughly 0.0033% of the entire 38 million black people in America. Let's keep bendingg and twisssting! If you want to be absurdly technical the 1,334 whites on death row amount to 0.00059% of the 223 million white people in America.
If they were disproportionately targeted... why would they be on par with white people on death row in terms of percentage? You are citing the NCAAP (not to be confused with NAACP) study that only showed four states as proof of a race disparity on their death rows, right? Or this
Atlantic article perhaps? It's convenient to use the proportional argument to claim how disproportionate the populations are being treated in any negative regard.
I get messed up in the quotes sometimes also
I think you misunderstand the way the math works.
Yes - whites should be represented in higher numbers. But lets look at math and ratios.
77% of the population is white.
14% is black.
You would expect to see that same ratio on death row: 77%/14%. Instead you see a really skewed ratio of 43%/42% that is way out of line with the general population. Blacks are more than 3 times over-represented on death row.
The numbers vary according to source with Whites at 77-80% and Blacks at 13-14%. Using this source:
United States Demographics Profile 2014 the US population in 2014 was 318,892,103.
13% (using same source) are black - that's 41,455,973, making the percentage on death (1291) to be
.00000311
80% are white - that's 255,113,682, making the percentage on death row (1334) to be .
00000052
No matter how you do the math - you are getting a much larger percentage of blacks on death row than is represented in the general population and a much (order of magnitude) larger proportion of the black population on death row than of the white population.
2. Something you missed:
The race of the victim and the race of the defendant in capital cases are major factors in determining who is sentenced to die in this country. In 1990 a report from the General Accounting Office concluded that "in 82 percent of the studies [reviewed], race of the victim was found to influence the likelihood of being charged with capital murder or receiving the death penalty, i.e. those who murdered whites were more likely to be sentenced to death than those who murdered blacks."
No I did not miss it. The same source also stated this: The race of the victim
and the race of the defendant in capital cases are major factors in determining who is sentenced to die in this country.
3. "We are not talking about crime (a much more complex problem) - we are talking about police actions and race."
No, your exact words were: "Blacks are more likely to be pulled over, handled aggressively, shot, arrested, incarcerated, and given the death penalty for the same crimes than whites. There is a lot of evidence to support that."
You're changing it to crime in general - I'm talking about crime and the justice system. How the justice system and law enforcement respond.
a) Once again, no. Whites are arrested at three times the rate of blacks. Arrested, which was one of the terms you used in your remark. A ratio of 3:1. For every black person arrested, there were three white people arrested.
Well duh...whites are
6 times more prevalent than blacks in the population,
you would expect to see them arrested at six times the rate of blacks.
b) A disproportionate number of whites are shot by cops than blacks, "there is a lot of evidence to support that." Shot, which was one of the terms used in that remark.
What evidence supports that a "disproportionate number of whites are shot by cops than blacks?
c) As for more blacks being "given the death penalty for the same crimes than whites" it seems clear to me looking at the stats you took from my link that there is a roughly equal amount of black and white people on death row. That makes your argument again, incorrect.
No, it makes your math wrong
d) As for "being handled aggressively" you'll have to refine your terminology.
I'll refine it with these examples then:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/09/us/mckinney-texas-pool-party-video/
New video of Sandra Bland's arrest before she later died in jail | Daily Mail Online
University cop indicted in traffic stop shooting - CNN.com
e) As for "being pulled over," of all the blacks pulled over, a staggering 12.3% were pulled over because of their race in 2008. That leaves a whopping 88.7% of them who were treated lawfully during traffic stops. Yeah. Such a problem.
Not quite. Were they pulled over for some minor thing that a white person would have gotten away with? I already showed you statistics stating that blacks are more likely to be searched on a routine traffic stop than whites for example. Or, harrassed like Sandra Bland.
f) As for incarceration, I have no doubt you are referring to the ACLU report by Ayers and Borowski of the supposed racial profiling of the Los Angeles Area in 2003 and 2004. That report however was soundly debunked, by David Klinger, a professor of criminology at the University of Missouri - St. Louis and former LAPD police officer himself. What Ayers and Borowski did was try to set the benchmark, saying a disproportionate amount of blacks are profiled. But as the LA and National crime statistics show, blacks commit more crimes than whites. Pure and simple.
Two examples , one from that that 28 year study I posted earlier:
Blacks don't necessarily commit more crimes. They are more likely to be arrested and more likely to be convicted than whites.
And another from a fact check done by a British TV station which is backed up clearly by
this FBI report:
FactCheck: do black Americans commit more crime?
Your race argument is bunk. I'm sorry but it is what it is. As I said before, the Black Lives Matter movement is addressing a nonexistent problem. They neglect to mention the astronomically high crime rates by black men in their population. The NCVS survey also debunks the whole idea that arrests are motivated by race. The victims disproportionately identified the assailant as black. Therefore police have to arrest more black people than white.
"Facts are stubborn things ; and whatever may be our wishes or our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and of evidence."
-John Adams
Race and Racism in the United States: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic
More facts for you to chew on:
Racial disparities in the Juvenile Justice System:
RACIAL DISPARITIES SEEN AS PERVASIVE IN JUVENILE JUSTICE
Black and Hispanic youths are treated more severely than white teenagers charged with comparable crimes at every step of the juvenile justice system, according to a comprehensive report released yesterday that was sponsored by the Justice Department and six of the nation's leading foundations.
The report found that minority youths are more likely than their white counterparts to be arrested, held in jail, sent to juvenile or adult court for trial, convicted and given longer prison terms, leading to a situation in which the impact is magnified with each additional step into the juvenile justice system.
In some cases, the disparities are stunning. Among young people who have not been sent to a juvenile prison before, blacks are more than six times as likely as whites to be sentenced by juvenile courts to prison. For those young people charged with a violent crime who have not been in juvenile prison previously, black teenagers are nine times more likely than whites to be sentenced to juvenile prison. For those charged with drug offenses, black youths are 48 times more likely than whites to be sentenced to juvenile prison.
Similarly, white youths charged with violent offenses are incarcerated for an average of 193 days after trial, but blacks are incarcerated an average of 254 days and Hispanics are incarcerated an average of 305 days.
Racial Disparities In Arrests Are Prevalent, But Cause Isn't Clear
The difficult question to answer, Heath says, is why these disparities in arrests are so prevalent across the agencies reporting data to the FBI. He says while it certainly points out the possibility of law enforcement bias, it could point to other factors as well.
Report shows deep racial disparity in arrests in Madison
A black person in Madison is over 10 times more likely than a white person to be arrested, according to an analysis published Sunday by the Wisconsin State Journal.
The newspaper reviewed two years of Madison Police Department arrest data and found police arrested whites at a rate of 2.6 arrests per 100 white residents annually, compared to arresting African-Americans at a rate of 27.6 arrests per 100 residents. Hispanics also were more likely than whites to be arrested.
Analysis: Blacks in Madison arrested at more than 10 times rate of whites - This article makes some good points, both on the degree of the racial disparity in arrests and on the complex reasons as to why.
Disparities occur not just in arrest rates,
but in every step of the way from how they are handled in the Juvenile Justice System to the Death Penalty.
Court Processing
• African Americans were more likely to be sentenced
to prison and less likely to be sentenced to probation
than Whites.
• The average prison sentence for violent crime was
approximately one year longer for African Americans
than for Whites.
• African Americans were convicted for drug charges at
substantially higher rates than those for Whites.
Incarcerated in Prisons and Jails
• Nationwide, African Americans were incarcerated in
state prison at 6 times the rate for Whites and in local
jails at almost 5 times the rate for Whites.
• African Americans were on probation at almost 3 times
and on parole at over 5 times the rate for Whites.
Death Penalty
• The rate at which African Americans were on death row
was almost 5 times the rate for Whites.
Juveniles
• Rates of youth admitted to adult prisons were 7 times
higher for African Americans and over 2 times as high
for Native Americans as for White youth.
• Disparity in the juvenile justice system is the worst at
the deepest levels of the system
And you think #Blacklivesmatter is little more than a race war group? I think they have a very legitimate concern.