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Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23

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Re: Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23

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Post by agwa »

EpicEng wrote: post #58

I think that this trend, at least in part, has been influenced by a change in the way that we treat adolescent crime. For example, even when I was a kid (early 90's) you would not get arrested for getting into a fist fight at school. Nowadays, bam; call the cops. Get caught with some pot? Arrested. Get caught performing some petty vandalization? Arrested. Get caught at a party drinking as a minor? Arrested. We arrest…

This has been dubbed the "school-to-prison pipeline." It's exacerbated by the fact that many schools now have police officers permanently stationed at the school, which leads to a "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" problem. It also contributes to the racial disparity because predominantly black schools are more likely to have a police officer than predominantly white schools.

Re: Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23

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Post by chippy »

onion2k wrote: post #54

Sounds bad, but assuming an arrest under 23 can happen any time between the ages of, say, 7 and 22, that's actually 2.7% in any given year, or roughly 1 in every 40 male children. It almost certainly points to police officers arresting children en masse in order to discover the real perpetrator rather than any child criminality epidemic.

It's not the rate that makes it bad , but the effects. In other words, it's not that there is a crime epidemic or a major problem with youth, or that every year only 1 in every 40 male children get arrested but that over all their youth-time taken as a whole 40% will have been arrested. But even that is not the key point from the abstract. The key point - what makes it bad are:

1) "Criminal records that show up in searches can impede employment, reduce access to housing, thwart admission to and financing for higher education and affect civic and volunteer activities such as voting or adoption. They also can damage personal and family relationships."

2) "A problem is that many males – especially black males – are navigating the transition from youth to adulthood with the baggage and difficulties from contact with the criminal justice system,"

Re: Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23

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Post by altcognito »

klochner wrote: post #40
pertinhower wrote: post #19

I find this frankly implausible. What percentage of people you know have been arrested? I'm guessing very small (even assuming that many hide it and so you're knowledge is substantially skewed). So maybe that's because of your high/squeaky-clean socio-economic class? No: imagine yourself in any class you care to. Unless that class is much, much larger than your "real" class, then it would have to have an astronomical…

I believe it, most arrests would fall into: - truancy (skipping school) - petty theft - underage drinking - DUI - drug possession (mostly marijuana) Now think about how many people you know who have ever done one of those things.

Reckless driving too. (Bill Gates for one)

Re: Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23

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Post by silverbax88 »

chc wrote: post #37
opendais wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anything that might make someone unemployable that didn't result in a conviction or other defeat in court.

I should have a right to make people forget that I have a bad attitude, never shower and am prone to cursing anyone in my vicinity?

Yes, because you did those things as a baby. We all did.

Re: Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23

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Post by Glide »

Sharlin wrote: post #38
opendais wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ya, stuff like that is why we need a right to be forgotten in the US. People tend to see an arrest and leap to conclusions. I say this as a person who has never been arrested. :/

You might also want to do something about those arrest rates. Treat the disease, not the symptoms.

I'll be curious to see what the rates are in Colorado in a couple of years.

Re: Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23

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Post by [deleted] »

bdcravens wrote: post #41
opendais wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ya, stuff like that is why we need a right to be forgotten in the US. People tend to see an arrest and leap to conclusions. I say this as a person who has never been arrested. :/

They're the extreme edge cases, but I'm sure George Zimmerman and Casey Anthony would agree 100%

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Re: Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23

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Post by josu »

john_other_john wrote: post #24

If you are just arrested in the UK, without any charge or caution, you become ineligible for the Visa Waiver program for entry into the United States. Interesting statistic, therefore, from this side of the pond, having strong links family, business and social in the US. It has often been a double standard in many fields. The trademark laws are highly favorable to US companies versus Madrid Treaty Protocol countries,…

Are you a bot?

Re: Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23

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Post by [deleted] »

macspoofing wrote: post #51
waqf wrote: post #8

Clarification: over 40% of young men in the US have been arrested. (It is ambiguous whether "youths" refers to both sexes.) (It is also possible to interpret the headline as saying that 40% of all youths worldwide have been in the US at some point, during which they were arrested, but I doubt many people were confused by that.)

>It is also possible to interpret the headline as saying that 40% of all youths worldwide have been in the US at some point Is it really possible to reasonably interpret the title in this way? Really really?

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