Nordic prison cells look like $3k apartments in San Francisco

Re:Nordic prison cells look like $3k apartments in San Franc... by colejohnson66 on Sunday December 13, 2020 @01:18PM (#25408697)

Is there actually a disparity in crime? Or just a reported one? If police believe blacks are more likely to commit crimes, they pay more attention to them and the cycle repeats.

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Re:Nordic prison cells look like $3k apartments in San Franc... by MikeUt on Sunday December 13, 2020 @02:07PM (#25409141)

That's why the homicide rate is used for such comparisons. It's unaffected by overpolicing, and can't be swept under the rug either.

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Re:Nordic prison cells look like $3k apartments in San Franc... by FruityCoconut on Sunday December 13, 2020 @02:13PM (#25409194)

FBI crime stats are a great source. For example, of murders in 2019, "Black or African American" accounted for 51% of murderers of known race (despite just 13.4% of the general population being black). https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

Less formally, and I'm quite serious, if you have the stomach for it I encourage you to explore the types of websites that inadvertently document these trends through amateur video (WorldStarHipHop being the classic example, but there are more confronting ones).

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