Re:Racial Profiling via Nextdoor.com
by steveeq1 on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @07:25PM
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How is this even possible though. Don't blacks comprise a disproportionate part of the prison population?
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Re:Racial Profiling via Nextdoor.com
by dllthomas on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @10:57PM
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It's plenty possible with disparities in sentencing. If one group tends to spend 2x the time another group does in prison for the same crime, and the crime rates and population size were identical, in a steady state prison populations would be made up of twice as many of the former group.