why are their some many african-americans in jail then any other race???
401677
Because cops are racist.
399489
It’s not a question of colour but financial status. Poor people are more likely to steal. In the USA the rate of blacks is high among the poor. This can be the reason, I guess. Well, in my country many more white people steal.
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You can find some great input on this issue at\nWWW.prisontalk.com. It is a support and information group for the friends and families of inmates and those who are facing trial/sentencing.\nGo check it out!
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I don't know, but I do know that black don't like what they are doing. They think because they break the law that they should get Superior legal status. Because they went thru the trouble of coming here. That freedom was earn here and a great price was paid for the opportunity that Americans have. Everyone want to come here to benefit from someone else misfortune. They need to do that somewhere esle.
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i asked some friends and they said some police check harder on other people than some. theyt have never arrested someone just because of race.
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Contrary to popular myth, inmates do not have internet access, there are no currently incarcerated people here.\nThere seem to be quite a few former inmates, and moms, wives, girlfriends and siblings of current inmates hanging around, but no current inmates.
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I have never been in jail & Hope never to serve time, however with that said, some of the most influential people of all time have served time in jail, Jesus Christ, Paul the Apostle, Henery David Therough, Mohotma Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm Little, etc. etc. etc...If I were ever in jail I would hope that it's for a good cause & I would do it over again in a heartbeat...
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This is a seriosu problem in ALL prisons. It seems that peopel seem to think it is added punishment for those that are sent to prison. The fact it is sactioned by many guards and wardens is appaling. It can often ruin the lives of inmates and make minor criminals worse by subjecting to beatings and rape.\n\nIt is not limited to Detroit, but nationwide.\n\nWrite your local Congress Rep and your Sentaors abot this topic.
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Because they can get away with it. Not all back people are racist. I have black friends and they're not. But this site is a prime example, You make a valid point and a load of brainless so called do gooders get on your case and start abusing you. And you'll notice they are all white, the black and coloured people who've answered you have mostly given you a constructive answer. The ones who haven't are the true racists because they are wrapping people in cotton wool just because they're a different colour, and not treating them as equal human beings. And the black people who have given you a stupid answer, like the ones who call you racist, are a result of living in this so called PC society. It like there are saying "hang on, you can't called a wrong doer if he's black, it's just not done"
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I am not black but I asked a Friend of mine that same question. He said it was because they were brought up to believe whites had it so much easier than them. I lived in a mixed neighborhood close to the inner city the tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife. Anyways some of the black guys I worked with were always asking when I was going to get everyone together at my house. So I finaly cleared this party with the wife and guess what none of them could make it over. My buddy who is black said when they found out where I lived they didn't want the other African Americans in the neighborhood to see them at my house. Its a funny old world ain't it?
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Because they commit more crimes. A better question would be, why do minorities commit more crimes? The answers to that question are complex.
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1. Blacks make up 15% of the US population yet make up 90% of the jailed population. There are more blacks in jail than the entire population of Alaska.\n2. We get long prison terms than other white counterparts because most jury's do not feature black jurors. This is mainly due to not registering to vote, not going to jury duty, and having criminal records that disqualify them from serving. The few that do sure on jurys throw the book at the black criminal for they view that criminal another person enforcing the stereotype about black people.\n3. Lets look at sports-you have guys flunking drug tests, raping women, doing drugs that are black and keep getting chance after chance on sport teams. Yet the white counterpart never gets a second chance.\n4. I'm not even going to get into rap music.\n5. Parents taht don't care. They instill that the white man is to blame for everything and to get out of a crime just yell racism.
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Most likely because larger numbers of black people don't live there compared to other races...
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Well first I want to say this is because of ill-informed white liberals and unsophisticated Democrats as to why we have this proble in America...\nI'll proceed...\nLet me put it to you like this: there are lazy black people and there are hard working black people. The only problem is, there is a good majority of them that are lazy. This is unfortunate because like with anything, the ones that are lazy give the ones who are hard working a bad name. Now, I'm not a conservative but I'm not a liberal. I'm not a racist but I definately know what you're talking about. As a matter of fact I'm not even white, but that doesn't matter. Anyways, the problem isn't so much that they're lazy as it is the problem that lies behind the fact that the majority of them who are lazy don't want to take on the responsibilities of bettering themselves and their community and accepting their faults as to why they are poor, why they don't have black-owned businesses even in the cities that they live in, why so many of them are incarcerated, why they can't stop depending on the government to give them handouts. I could go on and on. The truth of the matter is (and this is not just coming from me but other African-Americans as well), the majority of black folk in America don't want to take on responsibility to make change. They'd rather complain and blame everything on the white man and everyone else who isn't black. I mean, when Martin Luther King rallied a Civil Rights movement, he intended that to better the lives of black folk and give way to equal opportunities for them. As a matter of fact, the very people who fought for those civil rights back in the sixties sacrificed their lives just so black folk could prosper in America. But its a shame to see a good number of black folk disgrace that legacy by allowing drugs, crime and a lack of work ethics to tarnish it. I always hear this left-wing rehtoric that blacks have it hard in this country because they're black. It's not because they're black, it's because they don't want succeed the right way. I'm sure a number of you want to call me a racist, a this or that. You know what, it doesn't really matter because I know for a fact that when the Chinese, Vietnamese, East Indian (who some that are darker than some of the black folk here), and other ethnic groups who immigrated here, worked their asses off and did what they had to do with the very little rights they had and actaully pulled through and ended up owning businesses, having the highest level of education and made names for themselves. Now why can't black people here do the same? Well, here are number of reasons why:\n\nFor one, they highly depend on the Liberals and Democrats to give them this warm feeling that everything is in good hands as long as it is trusted in the hands of Liberals and Democrats, when the truth of the matter lies behind the fact that Democrats don't encourage them to pull their weight, stop using race as an excuse for success, leave family guidance and morale to the side (after all, Bill Clinton was po' black folk's daddy), and brainwash them into thinking that communism is going to solve all the problems when in fact it'll only make things worse for blacks (after all, with communism, who needs to work hard?).\nThe second and foremost reason is because white liberals use their aethist, communist, anything goes, anarchist delusional theory driven ideas to confuse African Americans to believing that as long as they're poor and black, they can be used as puppets for deranged liberal marketing.\n\nSo, if African Americans actually think that the Democrats or the radical liberals are going to make things better for them, then they better start rethinking why they go to church, why they're in America and not in Africa and why they don't need schools at all. Because as far as I'm concerned, it's not the A
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Economic disparity. In any society, where there is a large portion of poor people, the people in those "economic casts" are more likely to commit crimes of opportunity (drug dealing, petty theft, robber, auto theft, etc). Unfortunately, many African Americans fall in these poor economic casts. Its not a race issue, and if you were able to find reliable data, I'm sure you'd find that all people in an economic cast regardless of race, are prone to commit the same behaviors, whether that is crime, polygamy, stock trading, etc.
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I have no idea why they're so uptight. They feel that if they suffered in the past they have the right to be the country's little princesses. I've been to Europe and I swear black people aren't so uptight there. So the source for all this must be the frustration of african americans of having been enslaved by the white man in the past. Ok, we're all sorry. It's not going to happen ever again so you can all start behaving like everybody else now. Stop being so touchy.
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Good question, I noticed you said "some" white folks, thanks for specifing that. Not all us white people are a$$holes. I am sorry one of my "white" counterparts has done this to you or someone you know. It may stem from the INDIVIDUALS insecureness. However, I have been outcasted because I am white, and I haven't done anything wrong to anyone. Hell, I am married to someone of a different race, so why do black,brown,yellow,orange,red,green and or purple people instantley label all white people as racist slave owning hillbilly trailer trash? Same reason whites do it to other races, all races are racist, try this out, live in a homogenious (one race) country like I do, and then you will know what true racism is.