Do black people really commit more crime in proportion to their population or is it just a myth?
I was just wondering whether people are just prejudiced and that in actual fact the majority of crime is being committed by white people as they are the majority. Whether statistically if 5% of the population of a region are black whether they commit 5% of the crime in an area commensurate with their population. I would also like to know whether both in real terms and in proportion to the amount of the population or whether there is a link based on poverty and family cohesiveness to the levels of crime rather than a racial link.
Answers:
Consult the FBI's Uniform Crime Report(UCR),and you will see that you just might be right
a myth
You are right, the majority of crime are being committed by white people but they are not being imprisoned so they do not get into the statistics.
look on your gov. website under demographics for that city..it will give you the crime rate in regards to race. That should answer your question..LOL that is the most PC answer I think I have ever given on this site.
It is a myth
BLACK PEOPLE COMMIT MORE CRIMES THEN WHITE PEOPLE DO. I READ IT WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE.
Yes i think so, they are always on the news more than white people. especially on crime watch , next time you watch it jus see, how many there is.
its just a stupid and ridiculous stereotype
White people, Bush and Cheney
Probably just a myth, but with urban music, and the way Urban Black Uselessness creeps around anymore, its no wonder. Most 'African American' youth do not make an attempt to disprove said sterotype.
Mexican are quickly replacing that statistic.
no i dont think so, is just a myth, everyone commits crime! "just by throwing rubbish on the floor!"
It is a myth, the research is doctored according to the prejudices of those doing the work. They are becoming more and more jealous of black people on the world stage and therefore continue their efforts to subjugate our race
Bush is responsible for more deaths than all the black people in row death combined.
A myth (and I'm not a black man).
It is really hard to know that for several reasons:
Black (males) are especially scrutinized by law enforcement.
Blacks do not get juries 'of their peers', as shown by several studies.
Blacks are more likely to be convicted of crimes in similar evidenciary circumstances.
its easy to rubbish that myth in the UK because some cities have virtually non-existent black populations but still have high crime rates. the family cohesion aspect is interesting, but in some of the old industrial cities in northern England there is a high crime rate amongst Pakistani and Bangladeshi youths who are from cultures with Strong family traditions.
This is a UK forum so I take it you mean UK (the FBI are nothing to do with us) the figures of those arrested and convicted do not lie. You will find the stats you want on the the yougov site. I don't genuinely believe poverty should be a problem in ANY crime of any race often it is drug related or down to the fact that people want things without having to work or put effort into getting anything so much easier to steal, mug rape and kill than actually contribute to society
All criminals are opportunists, they take it where they can.
Most embezzelers, dishonest directors etc, who steal their company's money by bank-transfer etc, are white. Because they are in a position to commit those crimes. In inner-city areas, the 'street-crime' is going to be commited by people (mostly young males) who spend a lot of time on the street. A good number of these guys may be black. But I would say 'no', there is no correlation between skin-colour and crime, where all the other factors
are equal.
Why can't we all just quit being so viscious to one another ?
Why can't we be friends ? Why does someone always have to bear the brunt, and deal with the poverty and frustration ?Why would you ask such a question that you yourself could easily answer with available data ? Right now, more than ever before, we should be banding together as Americans.who cares what color, nationality, preference ?We are all in this together, division delights the ones that would do harm to us.
crimes happen more in poor areas and if in a poor area most of the people happen to be black then yes but it's not because black are criminals . if you were to put another race in a poor area and they were majority then they would have committed more crimes because of situations. situations make criminals not race there are as much white,Asian and every other race criminals as every thing else and it's not colour .
Because the police expect black people to commit more crime they provide more man power to these communities. With more policing available more arrests are made. When converted into statistics this shows that black people commit more crime, and the circle continues.. so I don't think that black people do commit more crime I just think that they are more likely to be caught and charged.
no, it's a fact - blacks commit more crime.
Black people are more likely to get worse punishment from the law.
Black people are more likely to be subject to "stop and search".
Black people are more likely to be picked up as a suspect from a vague description of an offender and identified even if innocent, just for being in the area etc
Black people are more likely to get excluded from school which can lead to being criminalised
I know many black people who have been disproportionatly or unfairly sentenced and people who have been sentenced etc for crimes they did not commit
Black people's solicitors are more likely to tell them to plead guilty for a reduced sentence, even when their client protests innocence
We are easier to find in majority white areas
Much of society seems to accept the idea of blacks being criminals whether this be potential rapists,druggies/dealers, car thiefs, prostitutes etc (an now terrorists)!
You can see this every day, people not sitting next to you on a bus, people running when only you and them on a street, store detectives following you round, cashiers insisting your debit card has to be checked with issuer, black children on streets as kicked out of school, lack of balck people in visible employment in city centres, etc, etc, etc,
All races have the capacity to be good or not, many races don;t get watched as closely!
It's not called the struggle cos it's easy!
However, to get some balance here, point above shows that the black communities are more likely to be criminalised, as opposed to be being crimincals.
We are also:
Doctors, lawyers, teachers, accountants, parents, mentors, priests/vicars/preachers, religious leaders, community activists and volunteers, architects, web designers,musicians, etc, etc, etc!
Black is beautiful baby!
I believe its a economical reason and even though this country is a land of opportunities, it is still very prejudice-tic to the core. I haven't heard a serial killer who is black, probably they are few but it would be ridiculous to compare how many child molester and murdering wacko who is white. What is worrying, the folks who committed heinous crimes out of fun or the people who committed petty crimes out of neccessity?
Sadly to say, whether one wants to admit or deny the fact. majority of those incarcerated are composed of mostly blacks. Poverty, lack of education and broken homes account for the influencing factors. Therefore an educated black man who grew up in a stable home with
a solid religious backround is less likely to commit crimes as he wouldn't be mingling with the wrong crowd,. Consider the fact here,that the poor blacks do not have the resources for good legal representation.
But it's also a stark fact that majority of blacks commit simple crimes, such as drugs trafficking, murder, homicides, theft, burglary,rapes or more often than not, domestic violence. When the crimes require more sophistication, it's usually attributed to the whites. In this category, are the serial killers, such as Gary, Dahmer, Son of David.or serial rapes such as the Florida case, or unresolved crimes such as the murder of JonBenet.
The crime is so heinous and of such magnitude that to attribute it to the blacks is beyond comprehension. The sociopathic tendencies are more prevalent in the whites here. No, I don't think that it's a racial link rather than a product of socioeconomic issues and environmental factors and absence of opportunities. .
Statistics need to be interpreted with caution. Even if the crime figures were to show that a larger proportion of black people within their population commit crime, the fact of the matter is that they are more likey to appear in the stats because police officers are more likely to stop a black person that they consider to be behaving suspiciously, than a white person. Of course there are links to poverty, ghettos and low expectations, where sadly black people are often disadvantaged, but we also need to ask 'who is most likely to be arrested by the police?'. Tracey H says it all!
Actually "black" people are oppressed, live in crappy neighborhoods, get crappy teachers in school (tax comes from property) grow up in a messed up family (low education = low responsibility) and thus end up committing the most crimes. It has NOTHING to do with race. I lived in a ghetto of white people and mexicans, mexicans from mexico who could'nt afford rend due to their non-english skills and then the whites who were the bottom rung of society. Although the mexicans committed crimes, the whites were always arrested. It all has to do with association with others and the process of our institutions. I say down with the beaurocracy.
The majority of the crime is white, white collar, but they get busted less, and they can afford to get out of it, I think black crime is just more media, lots of movies with black crime, gangsta rap glamorizes and exagerates black crime,
I would like to say it's a myth.but why is the prison population 70/30 to 80/20 in the minorities favor?
I think poor people get arrested more, due to less seclusion, so black people get arrested more due their high rate of poverty. But still, they definitely commit more crimes than white people. ONLY IN AMERICA DOES THIS HAPPEN. It's either a slavery thing, or black-skinned people are evil, and the latter choice is ridiculous.
Yes it is true.even with affirmative action hooking them up
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Answers:
Consult the FBI's Uniform Crime Report(UCR),and you will see that you just might be right
a myth
You are right, the majority of crime are being committed by white people but they are not being imprisoned so they do not get into the statistics.
look on your gov. website under demographics for that city..it will give you the crime rate in regards to race. That should answer your question..LOL that is the most PC answer I think I have ever given on this site.
It is a myth
BLACK PEOPLE COMMIT MORE CRIMES THEN WHITE PEOPLE DO. I READ IT WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE.
Yes i think so, they are always on the news more than white people. especially on crime watch , next time you watch it jus see, how many there is.
its just a stupid and ridiculous stereotype
White people, Bush and Cheney
Probably just a myth, but with urban music, and the way Urban Black Uselessness creeps around anymore, its no wonder. Most 'African American' youth do not make an attempt to disprove said sterotype.
Mexican are quickly replacing that statistic.
no i dont think so, is just a myth, everyone commits crime! "just by throwing rubbish on the floor!"
It is a myth, the research is doctored according to the prejudices of those doing the work. They are becoming more and more jealous of black people on the world stage and therefore continue their efforts to subjugate our race
Bush is responsible for more deaths than all the black people in row death combined.
A myth (and I'm not a black man).
It is really hard to know that for several reasons:
Black (males) are especially scrutinized by law enforcement.
Blacks do not get juries 'of their peers', as shown by several studies.
Blacks are more likely to be convicted of crimes in similar evidenciary circumstances.
its easy to rubbish that myth in the UK because some cities have virtually non-existent black populations but still have high crime rates. the family cohesion aspect is interesting, but in some of the old industrial cities in northern England there is a high crime rate amongst Pakistani and Bangladeshi youths who are from cultures with Strong family traditions.
This is a UK forum so I take it you mean UK (the FBI are nothing to do with us) the figures of those arrested and convicted do not lie. You will find the stats you want on the the yougov site. I don't genuinely believe poverty should be a problem in ANY crime of any race often it is drug related or down to the fact that people want things without having to work or put effort into getting anything so much easier to steal, mug rape and kill than actually contribute to society
All criminals are opportunists, they take it where they can.
Most embezzelers, dishonest directors etc, who steal their company's money by bank-transfer etc, are white. Because they are in a position to commit those crimes. In inner-city areas, the 'street-crime' is going to be commited by people (mostly young males) who spend a lot of time on the street. A good number of these guys may be black. But I would say 'no', there is no correlation between skin-colour and crime, where all the other factors
are equal.
Why can't we all just quit being so viscious to one another ?
Why can't we be friends ? Why does someone always have to bear the brunt, and deal with the poverty and frustration ?Why would you ask such a question that you yourself could easily answer with available data ? Right now, more than ever before, we should be banding together as Americans.who cares what color, nationality, preference ?We are all in this together, division delights the ones that would do harm to us.
crimes happen more in poor areas and if in a poor area most of the people happen to be black then yes but it's not because black are criminals . if you were to put another race in a poor area and they were majority then they would have committed more crimes because of situations. situations make criminals not race there are as much white,Asian and every other race criminals as every thing else and it's not colour .
Because the police expect black people to commit more crime they provide more man power to these communities. With more policing available more arrests are made. When converted into statistics this shows that black people commit more crime, and the circle continues.. so I don't think that black people do commit more crime I just think that they are more likely to be caught and charged.
no, it's a fact - blacks commit more crime.
Black people are more likely to get worse punishment from the law.
Black people are more likely to be subject to "stop and search".
Black people are more likely to be picked up as a suspect from a vague description of an offender and identified even if innocent, just for being in the area etc
Black people are more likely to get excluded from school which can lead to being criminalised
I know many black people who have been disproportionatly or unfairly sentenced and people who have been sentenced etc for crimes they did not commit
Black people's solicitors are more likely to tell them to plead guilty for a reduced sentence, even when their client protests innocence
We are easier to find in majority white areas
Much of society seems to accept the idea of blacks being criminals whether this be potential rapists,druggies/dealers, car thiefs, prostitutes etc (an now terrorists)!
You can see this every day, people not sitting next to you on a bus, people running when only you and them on a street, store detectives following you round, cashiers insisting your debit card has to be checked with issuer, black children on streets as kicked out of school, lack of balck people in visible employment in city centres, etc, etc, etc,
All races have the capacity to be good or not, many races don;t get watched as closely!
It's not called the struggle cos it's easy!
However, to get some balance here, point above shows that the black communities are more likely to be criminalised, as opposed to be being crimincals.
We are also:
Doctors, lawyers, teachers, accountants, parents, mentors, priests/vicars/preachers, religious leaders, community activists and volunteers, architects, web designers,musicians, etc, etc, etc!
Black is beautiful baby!
I believe its a economical reason and even though this country is a land of opportunities, it is still very prejudice-tic to the core. I haven't heard a serial killer who is black, probably they are few but it would be ridiculous to compare how many child molester and murdering wacko who is white. What is worrying, the folks who committed heinous crimes out of fun or the people who committed petty crimes out of neccessity?
Sadly to say, whether one wants to admit or deny the fact. majority of those incarcerated are composed of mostly blacks. Poverty, lack of education and broken homes account for the influencing factors. Therefore an educated black man who grew up in a stable home with
a solid religious backround is less likely to commit crimes as he wouldn't be mingling with the wrong crowd,. Consider the fact here,that the poor blacks do not have the resources for good legal representation.
But it's also a stark fact that majority of blacks commit simple crimes, such as drugs trafficking, murder, homicides, theft, burglary,rapes or more often than not, domestic violence. When the crimes require more sophistication, it's usually attributed to the whites. In this category, are the serial killers, such as Gary, Dahmer, Son of David.or serial rapes such as the Florida case, or unresolved crimes such as the murder of JonBenet.
The crime is so heinous and of such magnitude that to attribute it to the blacks is beyond comprehension. The sociopathic tendencies are more prevalent in the whites here. No, I don't think that it's a racial link rather than a product of socioeconomic issues and environmental factors and absence of opportunities. .
Statistics need to be interpreted with caution. Even if the crime figures were to show that a larger proportion of black people within their population commit crime, the fact of the matter is that they are more likey to appear in the stats because police officers are more likely to stop a black person that they consider to be behaving suspiciously, than a white person. Of course there are links to poverty, ghettos and low expectations, where sadly black people are often disadvantaged, but we also need to ask 'who is most likely to be arrested by the police?'. Tracey H says it all!
Actually "black" people are oppressed, live in crappy neighborhoods, get crappy teachers in school (tax comes from property) grow up in a messed up family (low education = low responsibility) and thus end up committing the most crimes. It has NOTHING to do with race. I lived in a ghetto of white people and mexicans, mexicans from mexico who could'nt afford rend due to their non-english skills and then the whites who were the bottom rung of society. Although the mexicans committed crimes, the whites were always arrested. It all has to do with association with others and the process of our institutions. I say down with the beaurocracy.
The majority of the crime is white, white collar, but they get busted less, and they can afford to get out of it, I think black crime is just more media, lots of movies with black crime, gangsta rap glamorizes and exagerates black crime,
I would like to say it's a myth.but why is the prison population 70/30 to 80/20 in the minorities favor?
I think poor people get arrested more, due to less seclusion, so black people get arrested more due their high rate of poverty. But still, they definitely commit more crimes than white people. ONLY IN AMERICA DOES THIS HAPPEN. It's either a slavery thing, or black-skinned people are evil, and the latter choice is ridiculous.
Yes it is true.even with affirmative action hooking them up
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