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To: LindyBill who wrote (141787)10/5/2005 11:52:21 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 794130
 
>>Of the men and women behind bars last year, 910,200 were black; 777,500 were white and 395,400 were Hispanic, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.<<

>>Whites made up 70.6% of all people arrested that year-- and 60.5% of those arrested for violent crime. Blacks totaled 27.0% of all arrests and accounted for 37.2% of the people arrested for committing a violent crime. . . .<<

Add arrests for blacks and whites and you get 97.6%. That leaves 2.4% for Hispanic and other. Yet Hispanics are 19% of the inmates? Something wrong with those numbers. Unless Hispanic whites are counted as white and Hispanic blacks are counted as black in the arrest numbers, in which case the data are useless.
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