After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 vehicles were stolen in one day

Re:After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 vehicles wer... by icxa on Sunday July 14, 2019 @11:28PM (#20437907)

> the whole concept of “bad neighborhoods” where people aren’t trustworthy is partly a racist trope

The concept of a "bad neighborhood" comes from crime statistics, not racist tropes. Either crime (theft, robbery, fraud, et all) is high, or it is not high, race be damned. Subscribers to a particular political ideology need to calm down with the whole "your facts/science are racist" bit, because it hurts everyone overall in the long run.

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Re:After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 vehicles wer... by onion2k on Monday July 15, 2019 @12:30AM (#20438129)

The level of crime in an area correlates far more closely to poverty than race, so suggesting a bad neighbourhood is bad because of the race of people who live there rather than other factors probably is racist.

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Re:After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 vehicles wer... by MrScruff on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:52AM (#20438476)

True but the first poster to mention race was the one bringing up the issue of racism.

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Re:After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 vehicles wer... by Noumenon72 on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:53AM (#20438481)

Given the extremely high correlation of crime to race, that seems unlikely. https://www.quora.com/Are-crime-rates-correlated-with-ethnic...

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Re:After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 vehicles wer... by inferiorhuman on Monday July 15, 2019 @02:43AM (#20438645)

Given the extremely high correlation of crime to race, that seems unlikely.

Ouch man, you're not even going to try to dog whistle?

From your link:

As of 2003 West Virginia Blacks accounted for just 3.2% of the total population and 34.9% of the total prison population.

Simply translated: White areas are safer areas. That is an irrefutable fact. The poverty argument, or excuse more accurately, can be torn to shreds time-after-time.

There are so many conclusions being jumped to there that you've probably worn the mat out already. All of that racist bullshit completely ignores the disparities in enforcement, prosecution, and sentencing. As an added bonus it completely misinterprets how the FBI categories race. But hey, maybe you can get a good deal on a dog whistle for Prime Day.

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Re:After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 vehicles wer... by dogecoinbase on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:36AM (#20438413)

Systemic racism -> poverty -> crime. It's not complicated -- your facts are racist because they're facts about a racist system.

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