Nearly Half Of Black Males, 40 Percent Of White Males Are Arrested By Age 23: Study
Source: Huffington Post
A large number of American men have already been arrested by the time they're in their early 20s, according to a new report.
The study, published on Monday in the journal Crime & Delinquency, found that nearly half (49 percent) of African-American men and 40 percent of white men have been arrested by the age of 23, "which can hurt their ability to find work, go to school and participate fully in their communities,"
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/06/half-of-blacks-arrested-23_n_4549620.html
Absolutely scary numbers when you think about it. How many are for minor offenses like carrying a joint that could effect them for life? Welcome to the PSA...Police States of America.
Turbineguy
(37,208 posts)needs meat.
wilt the stilt
(4,528 posts)of white men have been arrested. My son is 21 and my daughter is 23 and 4 out of 10 from seems a bit hard to believe.
rug
(82,333 posts)Twice in NYC for harassment (of police) and once for hitchhiking (pedestrian on a highway) in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
wilt the stilt
(4,528 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)I was arrested in NYC at 17.
rug
(82,333 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Well, two days, anyway.
rug
(82,333 posts)How did you like the holding pen just outside the courtroom?
Oddly enough, I worked for Legal Aid in Queens some years later. Every time I worked arraignments I talked through those same bars.
Next to crack, the most common cases were assaults in White Castles after 4 am.
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)to be arrested on.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)America are no longer nice.
struggle4progress
(118,039 posts)were that I was long-haired hippie and was walking rather than driving
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)Twice for me. No convictions, but two arrests.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)I Presume the other 60% bubble. We are so seperated as a society that many don't know how the other half (literally) lives. This will not end well as people can only be pushed so far before they organize and rise up. hopefully we fix our problems before then.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)No way. The discrepancy is much, much greater.
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)vagrancy, possession, fighting, disorderly conduct etcetera. Lots of misdemeanors for sure. Drunk driving the list goes on and on even before you reach felony crime. I was arrested at 19 for "failure to disperse" so I am one of those statistics.
And yes, 40% of white men is WAY more than 50% of black men given our demographics.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)So, incidence is around 5 arrests for every 100 adults (if my math is correct). But, then adjust downwards for repeat arrestees . . . I'm suspicious of this kind of survey as opposed to hard stats on actual arrests.
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)a 13 year old to a 23 year old. Chances of you being one of those 5 arrested in any given year are quite a bit greater over a 10 year period. Remember its just arrested, not convicted, not jail time necessarily. Probably 95% minor infractions.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)I wonder if they counted pseudo-arrests, as when you're transported to a station but given a violation ticket and let go before being booked into jail (no judge or arraignment), like what might happen on a disorderly conduct violation in NYC.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)Sounds like it was a survey asking men if they'd ever been arrested rather than actual police statistics. Most of my church youth group was taken to a jail once when heading for a friend's house at night for a toilet paper prank. Someone had called the police and reported them as a gang roaming around with beer cans and baseball bats, lol.
Because the number of black men with criminal records is greater?
Covered. A difference of 11%, coupled with racism that results in a slightly higher prosecution rate and even higher conviction against black men results in a higher rate of black men with criminal record.
Because more black men are in prison?
Covered. An additional difference that results in longer prison sentences for black men can result in double the # of black men in prison at any given time.
Chuck in minimum sentences and 3-strikes and you've closed the gap more than enough for the difference in witness reports for a variety of crimes to handle the rest.
Arrest =/= prison population.
What's fascinating is the persistent reporting of numbers showing that the various rates for black, Latino, and white women is fairly even at age 18, 20, 23. Pretty much only black men suffer from racism, as far as overall numbers go, which is an interesting observation that still doesn't (to my knowledge) have a convincing story behind it more than 20 years after I first heard it.
valerief
(53,235 posts)as slave labor instead.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)Fastcars
(204 posts)Public drunk, drunk and disorderly, failure to disperse,......
littlewolf
(3,813 posts)that number will change.
also the police will not be able to
take property.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)been booked for anything. And BTW I'm a 29-year-old white male.
Exultant Democracy
(6,594 posts)Tossed in Jail raped, never able to say anything cause men don't admit things like that... This is a truly terrible statistic and proves just how badly we have failed a generation of young men, less high school, less college, less jobs and less freedom.
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)protests did... "Failure to dispurse" at the Pentagon, and "trespassing" at a civil rights demonstration, where I was arrested with a friend who was black, so maybe that would have canceled out. Of course these were all way before the time of this survey.