by Chris Black
– 1/3 prison inmates are black, majority serving time for violent offenses
– lifetime chances of incarceration is 16.2% for blacks, 9.4% for Hispanics and 2.5% for Whites
– Average black male has greater than 1 in 4 chance of going to prison in his lifetime
– Blacks 6x more likely to go to prison than Whites
– Black women are 7x more likely than White women to go to prison
– Black women have nearly the same chance as White men of going to prison
– A typical year sees blacks commit 52% of homicides, 25% of rapes, 58% of armed robberies, 25% of property crime
– 2018 NCVS survey showed that out of 600,000 incidents of inter-racial violent crime between blacks and Whites, blacks committed 90% of them
– Blacks are 7x more likely to commit homicide, 6x more likely to be arrested for rape, 17x more likely to be arrested for robbery, 48x more likely to commit inter-racial assault, 6x more likely to go to prison (in comparison with Whites)
– In 2019, 96 percent of all shooters and shooting victims in New York City were people of colour (POCs also comprised 91.3 percent of rape suspects, 93% of robbery suspects, 86% of assault suspects)
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