That the authors of the paper included that statistic, based on the exact same data set you linked, without acknowledging that their own paper is arguing there is a massive disparity in wrongful conviction rates and thus FBI data set is, I believe, a benign mistake by the author.
We do not have a good understanding of the violence incidence rate amongst Black Americans (or any demographic). We do have a precise understanding of victimization across demographics.
But, even if you just assume that any wrongfully convicted Black American would be replaced by a different Black offender, you still have to deal with the disparity in wrongful convictions and its implications in terms of criminal justice and race.
That you managed to skim that paper and find the one already established statistic from the same flawed data set, without considering those implications is unsurprising.
>We do not have a good understanding of the violence incidence rate amongst Black Americans (or any demographic). We do have a precise understanding of victimization across demographics.
You are bending over backwards to deny the fact that black men are killing black men in black communities in significantly higher numbers than any other group. No amount of false convictions erases this fact, the bodies are hard to miss. That alone indicates a cause other than discrimination in the legal system.
I'm not denying that fact. I'm debating the precision of the statistic, and pointing towards other evidenced disparities that are not directly related to the murder rate.
You seem to be bending over backward to skim past those, focusing on a single statistic that allows you to push a simplistic, prejudiced narrative.
Even if the murder rate disparities are 100% accurate, that does not explain or justify any of the other disparities we see in evidence.
The number of black people in prison would PLUMMET if they didn’t commit crimes. Same for every race. Makes it hard to give a shit. You are obviously right that innocent people are in prison and I’m right the black murder rate is high
Murder, rape and assault are “criminalized poverty”? People who satisfy addicts destructive drug habits are good? Heavily black cities have worse detectives(possibly racism). Equal enforcement would see more blacks people in prison for murder at least
Murder, rape and assault represent a minority of people in prison[0], and a full quarter of people in jail nationwide are only in jail because they can't afford bail.
If you believe people should be in jail for non-violent drug offenses, we can agree to disagree. I'm primarily a libertarian, and believe in the basic ethos of bodily autonomy.
