Where are the White Leaders? - Black Incarceration Rates Are Dropping While White Rates Skyrocket

[leecross]

The answer is for Black folk to stop tolerating crime in the Black culture and society.

The answer is that whites like you stop tolerating crime in the white culture and society that is the cause of your white asses getting annually arrested at triple the number of blacks.

Whites commit crimes at a rate under their percentage of the population. You should be praising us for behaving better than almost all other racial groups. We certainly behave a fuck of a lot better than blacks.

Every moment you spend criticising white people, is a moment you are being a total hypocrite. You should be talking about black problems (of which there are many). They are far more severe than the problems of any other group you can possibly name.

Whites commit more crimes than anyone else. By number. Every year.

Why are you defending a status quo which ill serves Blacks AND Whites?

I want Blacks to become more allergic to crime than to swimming.

Once we evolve to the point where we as a race are known for being allergic to crime, then the Police will leave us alone and we will see them as our societal guardians.

Eliminate the white creation called organized crime mother fucker. Then come talk.

We have posters arguing in every direction. Let us stop to self identify.

I am Black and want Blacks to raise our standards so that we lose our current reputation as wanting handouts, something for nothing and as being criminals so that eventually the Police and White people, generally, will not think of us as criminals.

When that happens, we will have taken the next major step toward achieving the equality we want which is promised by the Constitution and dreamed of by Dr. King.

 

[leecross]

The answer is for Black folk to stop tolerating crime in the Black culture and society.

The answer is that whites like you stop tolerating crime in the white culture and society that is the cause of your white asses getting annually arrested at triple the number of blacks.

Whites commit crimes at a rate under their percentage of the population. You should be praising us for behaving better than almost all other racial groups. We certainly behave a fuck of a lot better than blacks.

Every moment you spend criticising white people, is a moment you are being a total hypocrite. You should be talking about black problems (of which there are many). They are far more severe than the problems of any other group you can possibly name.

Whites commit more crimes than anyone else. By number. Every year.

Why are you defending a status quo which ill serves Blacks AND Whites?

I want Blacks to become more allergic to crime than to swimming.

Once we evolve to the point where we as a race are known for being allergic to crime, then the Police will leave us alone and we will see them as our societal guardians.

Eliminate the white creation called organized crime mother fucker. Then come talk.

Defending our "condition" means we might never be motivated to improve our "condition "

 

[EvilCat Breath]

More people are armed leaving fewer black people alive to be prosecuted.

 

[keepitreal]

Hmm, think the black incarceration decline,
might have anything to do with
all the blacks lowlifes, killed by other black lowlifes,
day after day, month after month, year after year?

Black Lives Matter

 

[AveryJarhman]

Hmm, think the black incarceration decline,
might have anything to do with
all the blacks lowlifes, killed by other black lowlifes,
day after day, month after month, year after year?

Hello, keepitreal. Who is raising, nurturing and socializing fellow citizens you denigrate as lowlife?

Do you believe engaging in HATE and name-calling will help improve the Quality of American Life for newborns, infants, toddlers, children and teens who THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN, are SELFISHLY introduced to a traumatic, potentially life scarring childhood and teen upbringing fraught with Struggles, PAIN, Hardships, COMMUNITY FEAR, Frustrations, Uncertainty, Depression, Sorrow, Sadness, Torment, Demeaning Government Handouts, Resentment, HATE and COMMUNITY VIOLENCE?

​

Peace.

 

[AveryJarhman]

Criminal justice observers are making note of a trend in incarceration that goes against conventional wisdom and deserves attention. The rates of Black incarceration have dropped, while white and Latino rates of imprisonment are on the increase.

#TheLargerIssue #SingleParenting #Fatherlessness #ChildNeglectMaltreatment #MentalHealth #Solutions

Frankly, when I begin witnessing fellow citizens in my community engaging in street corner hand-to-hand drug sales, OR begin hearing the hair-raising sounds of nearby or distant GUNFIRE echoing through my neighborhood streets, I will view my Long Island suburban community as a community in serious CRISIS.

So, until I begin witnessing anti-social, 'people and community harming' behaviors occurring in my community, I'd prefer responsibly addressing 'people and community harming' social and mental health issues affecting the Quality of Life for my fellow citizens who are IN FACT experiencing genuine concerns for their family, friend's and neighbor's SAFETY while 24/7 listening to the sounds of gunfire echoing through American neighborhoods and communities.

VIDEOS DEPICTING EMOTIONALLY ILL HOMIC!DAL SUIC!DAL YOUNG AMERICAN CITIZENS (age- restricted)

ht tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CqOptIaJC0/
ht tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGOr9PAG7XI
ht tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhVLjamkIog/
ht tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y813dd95t0/
ht tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSPuNqyECN0/
ht tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9A3GOXuCsc/

Assuming the apparent emotionally or mentally ill citizens appearing in these horrifying recordings were perfectly healthy American newborns, I'd like to learn your opinion explaining why they developed into HATERS?

​

The late 'Childhood Trauma' (#ACEs) and Gun Violence Victim Tupac Shakur's often misinterpreted, much ignored T.H.U.G.L.I.F.E. Child Abuse, Emotional Neglect, Abandonment & Maltreatment *AWARENESS-PREVENTION* Public Service Announcement applies to American and foreign born citizens of ALL backgrounds:

T.H.U.G.L.I.F.E. - "The HATE U Give Little Infants Fvvks *EVERYONE"* ~Tupac Shakur, American Urban-TRUTH-Teller

"Mental illness in Black Communities" Published on Nov 10, 2010 www dawsondenise com



Peace.
___
American *(Children)* Lives Matter; Take Pride In Parenting; *End Our Nation's *CHILD CARE* PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS*; End Community Violence, Police Anxiety & Educator's Frustrations

 

[keepitreal]

Hmm, think the black incarceration decline,
might have anything to do with
all the blacks lowlifes, killed by other black lowlifes,
day after day, month after month, year after year?

Hello, keepitreal. Who is raising, nurturing and socializing fellow citizens you denigrate as lowlife?

Do you believe engaging in HATE and name-calling will help improve the Quality of American Life for newborns, infants, toddlers, children and teens who THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN, are SELFISHLY introduced to a traumatic, potentially life scarring childhood and teen upbringing fraught with Struggles, PAIN, Hardships, COMMUNITY FEAR, Frustrations, Uncertainty, Depression, Sorrow, Sadness, Torment, Demeaning Government Handouts, Resentment, HATE and COMMUNITY VIOLENCE?

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Peace.

Hello, keepitreal. Who is raising, nurturing and socializing fellow citizens you denigrate as lowlife?

Ghetto trash and the streets

Do you believe engaging in HATE and name-calling will help improve the Quality of American Life for newborns, infants, toddlers, children and teens who THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN, are SELFISHLY introduced to a traumatic, potentially life scarring childhood and teen upbringing fraught with Struggles, PAIN, Hardships, COMMUNITY FEAR, Frustrations, Uncertainty, Depression, Sorrow, Sadness, Torment, Demeaning Government Handouts, Resentment, HATE and COMMUNITY VIOLENCE?

Don’t you believe, instilling racism as the reason
and allowing people to use their color as an excuse
instead of addressing the problems by keeping it real,
has done more harm than good?

It's not about what people have to deal with,
it’s about why they’re dealing with, what they are
and how they are dealing with, what they’re facing

Choices have consequences

If I kept having babies I couldn’t financially support
of course I’m going to be struggling and face hardship
and need government assistance to handle my responsibilities

You have a vicious cycle of ghetto trash mentality,
that only knows hustling and handouts.

For some reason, it’s taboo to tell it like it is

 

[AveryJarhman]

Hmm, think the black incarceration decline,
might have anything to do with
all the blacks lowlifes, killed by other black lowlifes,
day after day, month after month, year after year?

Hello, keepitreal. Who is raising, nurturing and socializing fellow citizens you denigrate as lowlife?

Do you believe engaging in HATE and name-calling will help improve the Quality of American Life for newborns, infants, toddlers, children and teens who THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN, are SELFISHLY introduced to a traumatic, potentially life scarring childhood and teen upbringing fraught with Struggles, PAIN, Hardships, COMMUNITY FEAR, Frustrations, Uncertainty, Depression, Sorrow, Sadness, Torment, Demeaning Government Handouts, Resentment, HATE and COMMUNITY VIOLENCE?

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Peace.

Hello, keepitreal. Who is raising, nurturing and socializing fellow citizens you denigrate as lowlife?

Ghetto trash and the streets

Do you believe engaging in HATE and name-calling will help improve the Quality of American Life for newborns, infants, toddlers, children and teens who THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN, are SELFISHLY introduced to a traumatic, potentially life scarring childhood and teen upbringing fraught with Struggles, PAIN, Hardships, COMMUNITY FEAR, Frustrations, Uncertainty, Depression, Sorrow, Sadness, Torment, Demeaning Government Handouts, Resentment, HATE and COMMUNITY VIOLENCE?

Don’t you believe, instilling racism as the reason
and allowing people to use their color as an excuse
instead of addressing the problems by keeping it real,
has done more harm than good?

It's not about what people have to deal with,
it’s about why they’re dealing with, what they are
and how they are dealing with, what they’re facing

Choices have consequences

If I kept having babies I couldn’t financially support
of course I’m going to be struggling and face hardship
and need government assistance to handle my responsibilities

You have a vicious cycle of ghetto trash mentality,
that only knows hustling and handouts.

For some reason, it’s taboo to tell it like it is

Hello, KIR. Apparently my thoughts and concerns went right over your head.

Please, feel free to continue showing off your hate skills, while I civilly continue asking pertinent questions and offering THE ONLY solution for ending social and MENTAL HEALTH issues primarily responsible for causing ppl to HATE and mistrust.

​

Peace.

 

[keepitreal]

Hmm, think the black incarceration decline,
might have anything to do with
all the blacks lowlifes, killed by other black lowlifes,
day after day, month after month, year after year?

Hello, keepitreal. Who is raising, nurturing and socializing fellow citizens you denigrate as lowlife?

Do you believe engaging in HATE and name-calling will help improve the Quality of American Life for newborns, infants, toddlers, children and teens who THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN, are SELFISHLY introduced to a traumatic, potentially life scarring childhood and teen upbringing fraught with Struggles, PAIN, Hardships, COMMUNITY FEAR, Frustrations, Uncertainty, Depression, Sorrow, Sadness, Torment, Demeaning Government Handouts, Resentment, HATE and COMMUNITY VIOLENCE?

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Peace.

Hello, keepitreal. Who is raising, nurturing and socializing fellow citizens you denigrate as lowlife?

Ghetto trash and the streets

Do you believe engaging in HATE and name-calling will help improve the Quality of American Life for newborns, infants, toddlers, children and teens who THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN, are SELFISHLY introduced to a traumatic, potentially life scarring childhood and teen upbringing fraught with Struggles, PAIN, Hardships, COMMUNITY FEAR, Frustrations, Uncertainty, Depression, Sorrow, Sadness, Torment, Demeaning Government Handouts, Resentment, HATE and COMMUNITY VIOLENCE?

Don’t you believe, instilling racism as the reason
and allowing people to use their color as an excuse
instead of addressing the problems by keeping it real,
has done more harm than good?

It's not about what people have to deal with,
it’s about why they’re dealing with, what they are
and how they are dealing with, what they’re facing

Choices have consequences

If I kept having babies I couldn’t financially support
of course I’m going to be struggling and face hardship
and need government assistance to handle my responsibilities

You have a vicious cycle of ghetto trash mentality,
that only knows hustling and handouts.

For some reason, it’s taboo to tell it like it is

Hello, KIR. Apparently my thoughts and concerns went right over your head.

Please, feel free to continue showing off your hate skills, while I civilly continue asking pertinent questions and offering THE ONLY solution for ending social and MENTAL HEALTH issues primarily responsible for causing ppl to HATE and mistrust.

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Peace.

Hello, KIR. Apparently my thoughts and concerns went right over your head.

No they didn’t...
Apparently, you don’t see truth and accountability as solutions

Please, feel free to continue showing off your hate skills, while I civilly continue asking pertinent questions and offering THE ONLY solution for ending social and MENTAL HEALTH issues primarily responsible for causing ppl to HATE and mistrust.

You have kids born into situations
because no one is keeping it real
and holding people accountable

 

[sealybobo]

So still an epidemic of black crime and you claim otherwise.......

Look how quickly whites lose their shit when things get just a little bad for them. Hell you guys are talking about civil war even when the economy is booming.

So why are whites so mad? And now it seems like our incarceration rates are going up. Maybe we shouldn’t preach to blacks

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Criminal justice observers are making note of a trend in incarceration that goes against conventional wisdom and deserves attention. The rates of Black incarceration have dropped, while white and Latino rates of imprisonment are on the increase.

The Sentencing Project reported that in the first decade of the 21st century, while the U.S. prison population increased overall, a shift was taking place, specifically a significantly lower growth rate. Between 1972 and 2010, America witnessed a 500 percent increase in its jail and prison population, with state prisons experiencing a 12 percent annual increase during their highest growth years in the 1980s. However, between 2000 and 2010, prison growth cooled down substantially, as state prison populations rose an average of 1.1 percent each year, and federal prisons 3.3 percent on average, compared to a rise of 5.6 percent and 8.6 percent, respectively, in the 1990s.

Looking more closely at the dynamics behind the numbers, the Sentencing Project report noted that as prison population stabilized and decreased in some states, these changing dynamics were reflected in racial and gender disparities in incarceration from 2000 to 2009. Overall, the incarceration rate in state and federal prison dropped 9.8 percent for Black men and 30.7 percent for Black women. By contrast, the incarceration rate increased 8.5 percent for white men and 47.1 percent for white women, declined 2.2 percent for Latino men and rose 23.3 percent for Latino women.

For women, the shift in the racial gap was dramatic. The number of white women in prison increased 48.4 percent, the number of Black women fell 24.6 percent, and the number of Latino women increased 75 percent during that time frame. Black women were imprisoned at a rate six times higher than white women in 2000. By the end of the decade, that disparity had narrowed by more than half to a ratio of 2.8 to 1.

Despite the substantial changes, the disparities by race and ethnicity remained, as “African Americans and Latinos constituted more than 60% of imprisoned offenders. African American males were incarcerated in state and federal prisons at 6.4 times the rate of non-Hispanic white males, and Hispanic males at 2.4 times the rate of non-Hispanic whites,” according to the Sentencing Project.

Similarly, data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that Black male incarceration fell 22 percent between 2000 and 2014, while the white rate increased 4 percent, closing the racial gap by a quarter. During that time period, imprisonment among Black women decreased 47 percent, and the rate among white women soared 56 percent, narrowing the racial disparity between Black and white women by two-thirds.

“It’s very intriguing,” Marc Mauer, Executive Director of the Sentencing Project told Atlanta Black Star of the shifting incarceration rates by race. “The first part of it is there are two different stories. I don’t think it’s law enforcement saying, ‘We’re arresting too many Black people.’

“Among whites and Latinos, to some extent, the common assumption is opioid-related. I think that’s a good chunk of it. I don’t think that explains the whole thing,” Mauer added. “The trends started around 2000 before the opioid epidemic, so it was starting in that direction. It may be more related to the underlying changes in white working-class communities — declining economic opportunity, physical disabilities, job-related and others. :disdain Some of that winds up in opioid addiction, risk factors for bad health and crime. I think it’s declining opportunity that leads to entry into the criminal justice system,” he added.

Assessing the incarceration numbers for African-Americans, Mauer surmises the shifting impact of crack cocaine arrests are at play, along with declining crime rates over the past 20 years. Mauer also pointed to increasing evidence that community-based initiatives played a role for Black communities, while more whites were introduced to widespread poverty through the aftermath of the Great Recession. Black people always knew tough times, and more white people are experiencing it, along with deteriorating life prospects, and as Brookings study found, increased mortality rates, drug and alcohol abuse, and suicides from 1998 to 2013, precisely when these shifting incarceration rates were taking place.

“One part I find interesting is we had the fiscal crisis of 2008 and 2009 and they usually hit communities of color more, but this wasn’t the case. How would we understand why that didn’t take place? My guess is in many respects poverty and disadvantage is not a news item in African-American communities. It has been going on for decades. :disdain But for whites who were dependent on coal mine jobs and auto plants, those jobs are gone,” Mauer said. “In Black communities there is more of a tradition of a social safety net, of support with churches, neighborhoods helping each other, social service agencies,” he added, noting that in some of the white communities, some of those networking dynamics may not have been as strong, hence their downward trajectory.

Juwan Z. Bennett, fourth-year Ph.D. student in criminal justice at Temple University, elaborated on the role of community-based organizations in the decline of African-American incarceration. The young criminal justice scholar pointed to the work of people such as NYU sociologist Patrick Sharkey, who cites the unsung presence of community groups as a missing piece in a puzzle where a combination of factors is at play. Sharkey estimated in his research that for every 10 additional community-based organizations in a city of 100,000 people, the murder rate dropped 9 percent, and violent crime fell 6 percent.

“As criminologists, we’re not really sure what causes these drops,” Bennett told Atlanta Black Star. “With Sharkey’s research, it’s a combination of things.”

“Nonprofits didn’t even see themselves doing criminal just reform work,” Bennett explained, noting that these are just “ordinary citizens,” as opposed to experts that society often turns to for answers. “It makes sense from a practical point that if you live in the community, you know how to solve the problem.” Bennett cited the organization CeaseFire, in which those who have “perpetrated violence in their own community become violence interrupters.”

Bennett also noted that in the 1970s, with the influx of Black men into the prison system, sociologist Robert Martinson released studies claiming nothing works, including rehabilitation and treatment, bolstering advocates of a tough-on-drugs stance with more punishment. “Now, people have adopted evidence-based programs, and that adds to what community-based organizations do,” Bennett said. “People are starting to understand that violence is a public health problem. Issues such as crime are a public health problem.” However, the racial injustices and disparities remain, and the Temple scholar believes conditions will not change in America without a paradigm shift in policies, and a healthy conversation about race.

“The numbers are still horrendous by any reasonable measure. We can’t overlook any of that,” Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project concluded. “Nonetheless, the fact that the African-American numbers are going down both in absolute terms and Black-white disparities offers hope these problems are not intractable. How racial disparities develop in the justice system are subject to policy and practice decisions in the justice system,” he added. Mauer used the example of New York state, which has been a leader in decarceration and has experienced a 25 percent reduction in its prison population, almost entirely due to a reduction in drug sentences, with Blacks and Latinos benefiting the most. “It’s like the converse of what the drug war looked like. Blacks and Latinos were 90 percent of the people incarcerated, now 90 percent of people who benefited. Whether it was motivated by concerns of racial justice, that is certainly the effect. We can make changes if we are focused on it, and there is no adverse effect on public safety.”


Black Incarceration Rates Are Dropping While White Rates Rises, But What's Really Behind This Surprising Trend?

We don't have "white leaders." Only blacks do. For whites, that would be RAYCISSSSSS!

 

[Godboy]

The answer is for Black folk to stop tolerating crime in the Black culture and society.

The answer is that whites like you stop tolerating crime in the white culture and society that is the cause of your white asses getting annually arrested at triple the number of blacks.

Whites commit crimes at a rate under their percentage of the population. You should be praising us for behaving better than almost all other racial groups. We certainly behave a fuck of a lot better than blacks.

Every moment you spend criticising white people, is a moment you are being a total hypocrite. You should be talking about black problems (of which there are many). They are far more severe than the problems of any other group you can possibly name.

Whites commit more crimes than anyone else. By number. Every year.

We are 67% of the population, so one would expect that to be the case, but surprisingly it isnt. Most of the murders in the US are committed by black people, even though they are only 13% of the population.

No excuses. Whites commit more crimes than anyone else. By number. Murder is not the only crime and less than 1/1000th`of 1 percent of all blacks commit murder. Don't try to argue with me about this son. I know way too much more than you do about this matter.

Why is basic math so hard for you?

 

[AveryJarhman]

No they didn’t...
Apparently, you don’t see truth and accountability as solutions

KIR, apparently you believe calling people denigrating names like "lowlifes" is helpful, as well as responsible.



Sorry for taking up your time, please continue HATING. It's good for the soul, adds years to a fun healthy life.

Peace.

 

[sealybobo]

Criminal justice observers are making note of a trend in incarceration that goes against conventional wisdom and deserves attention. The rates of Black incarceration have dropped, while white and Latino rates of imprisonment are on the increase.

The Sentencing Project reported that in the first decade of the 21st century, while the U.S. prison population increased overall, a shift was taking place, specifically a significantly lower growth rate. Between 1972 and 2010, America witnessed a 500 percent increase in its jail and prison population, with state prisons experiencing a 12 percent annual increase during their highest growth years in the 1980s. However, between 2000 and 2010, prison growth cooled down substantially, as state prison populations rose an average of 1.1 percent each year, and federal prisons 3.3 percent on average, compared to a rise of 5.6 percent and 8.6 percent, respectively, in the 1990s.

Looking more closely at the dynamics behind the numbers, the Sentencing Project report noted that as prison population stabilized and decreased in some states, these changing dynamics were reflected in racial and gender disparities in incarceration from 2000 to 2009. Overall, the incarceration rate in state and federal prison dropped 9.8 percent for Black men and 30.7 percent for Black women. By contrast, the incarceration rate increased 8.5 percent for white men and 47.1 percent for white women, declined 2.2 percent for Latino men and rose 23.3 percent for Latino women.

For women, the shift in the racial gap was dramatic. The number of white women in prison increased 48.4 percent, the number of Black women fell 24.6 percent, and the number of Latino women increased 75 percent during that time frame. Black women were imprisoned at a rate six times higher than white women in 2000. By the end of the decade, that disparity had narrowed by more than half to a ratio of 2.8 to 1.

Despite the substantial changes, the disparities by race and ethnicity remained, as “African Americans and Latinos constituted more than 60% of imprisoned offenders. African American males were incarcerated in state and federal prisons at 6.4 times the rate of non-Hispanic white males, and Hispanic males at 2.4 times the rate of non-Hispanic whites,” according to the Sentencing Project.

Similarly, data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that Black male incarceration fell 22 percent between 2000 and 2014, while the white rate increased 4 percent, closing the racial gap by a quarter. During that time period, imprisonment among Black women decreased 47 percent, and the rate among white women soared 56 percent, narrowing the racial disparity between Black and white women by two-thirds.

“It’s very intriguing,” Marc Mauer, Executive Director of the Sentencing Project told Atlanta Black Star of the shifting incarceration rates by race. “The first part of it is there are two different stories. I don’t think it’s law enforcement saying, ‘We’re arresting too many Black people.’

“Among whites and Latinos, to some extent, the common assumption is opioid-related. I think that’s a good chunk of it. I don’t think that explains the whole thing,” Mauer added. “The trends started around 2000 before the opioid epidemic, so it was starting in that direction. It may be more related to the underlying changes in white working-class communities — declining economic opportunity, physical disabilities, job-related and others. :disdain Some of that winds up in opioid addiction, risk factors for bad health and crime. I think it’s declining opportunity that leads to entry into the criminal justice system,” he added.

Assessing the incarceration numbers for African-Americans, Mauer surmises the shifting impact of crack cocaine arrests are at play, along with declining crime rates over the past 20 years. Mauer also pointed to increasing evidence that community-based initiatives played a role for Black communities, while more whites were introduced to widespread poverty through the aftermath of the Great Recession. Black people always knew tough times, and more white people are experiencing it, along with deteriorating life prospects, and as Brookings study found, increased mortality rates, drug and alcohol abuse, and suicides from 1998 to 2013, precisely when these shifting incarceration rates were taking place.

“One part I find interesting is we had the fiscal crisis of 2008 and 2009 and they usually hit communities of color more, but this wasn’t the case. How would we understand why that didn’t take place? My guess is in many respects poverty and disadvantage is not a news item in African-American communities. It has been going on for decades. :disdain But for whites who were dependent on coal mine jobs and auto plants, those jobs are gone,” Mauer said. “In Black communities there is more of a tradition of a social safety net, of support with churches, neighborhoods helping each other, social service agencies,” he added, noting that in some of the white communities, some of those networking dynamics may not have been as strong, hence their downward trajectory.

Juwan Z. Bennett, fourth-year Ph.D. student in criminal justice at Temple University, elaborated on the role of community-based organizations in the decline of African-American incarceration. The young criminal justice scholar pointed to the work of people such as NYU sociologist Patrick Sharkey, who cites the unsung presence of community groups as a missing piece in a puzzle where a combination of factors is at play. Sharkey estimated in his research that for every 10 additional community-based organizations in a city of 100,000 people, the murder rate dropped 9 percent, and violent crime fell 6 percent.

“As criminologists, we’re not really sure what causes these drops,” Bennett told Atlanta Black Star. “With Sharkey’s research, it’s a combination of things.”

“Nonprofits didn’t even see themselves doing criminal just reform work,” Bennett explained, noting that these are just “ordinary citizens,” as opposed to experts that society often turns to for answers. “It makes sense from a practical point that if you live in the community, you know how to solve the problem.” Bennett cited the organization CeaseFire, in which those who have “perpetrated violence in their own community become violence interrupters.”

Bennett also noted that in the 1970s, with the influx of Black men into the prison system, sociologist Robert Martinson released studies claiming nothing works, including rehabilitation and treatment, bolstering advocates of a tough-on-drugs stance with more punishment. “Now, people have adopted evidence-based programs, and that adds to what community-based organizations do,” Bennett said. “People are starting to understand that violence is a public health problem. Issues such as crime are a public health problem.” However, the racial injustices and disparities remain, and the Temple scholar believes conditions will not change in America without a paradigm shift in policies, and a healthy conversation about race.

“The numbers are still horrendous by any reasonable measure. We can’t overlook any of that,” Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project concluded. “Nonetheless, the fact that the African-American numbers are going down both in absolute terms and Black-white disparities offers hope these problems are not intractable. How racial disparities develop in the justice system are subject to policy and practice decisions in the justice system,” he added. Mauer used the example of New York state, which has been a leader in decarceration and has experienced a 25 percent reduction in its prison population, almost entirely due to a reduction in drug sentences, with Blacks and Latinos benefiting the most. “It’s like the converse of what the drug war looked like. Blacks and Latinos were 90 percent of the people incarcerated, now 90 percent of people who benefited. Whether it was motivated by concerns of racial justice, that is certainly the effect. We can make changes if we are focused on it, and there is no adverse effect on public safety.”


Black Incarceration Rates Are Dropping While White Rates Rises, But What's Really Behind This Surprising Trend?

Why are white men so angry? They don't have to put up with the shit blacks have had to deal with for hundreds of years yet they seem the most angry

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Not a democrat. How do we know?
He has an active license to carry firearms
He blamed Jews for helping migrant caravans

He said he didn't vote for Trump. I don't believe that. Unless he's one of those guys upset that Ivanka married a jew.

 

[Meathead]

Murder is not the only crime and less than 1/1000th`of 1 percent of all blacks commit murder. Don't try to argue with me about this son. I know way too much more than you do about this matter.

You really don't get math do you. 1/1000 of 1% wouldln't even cover Baltimore, let alone Chicago.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

What are we doing?
If this is even true which I have my doubts.
I'll tell you what we aren't doing,we aren't marching in the streets and rioting defending these criminals.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

The answer is for Black folk to stop tolerating crime in the Black culture and society.

The answer is that whites like you stop tolerating crime in the white culture and society that is the cause of your white asses getting annually arrested at triple the number of blacks.

We're not the ones rioting and defending criminals.
That would be you guys.

 

[IM2]

Murder is not the only crime and less than 1/1000th`of 1 percent of all blacks commit murder. Don't try to argue with me about this son. I know way too much more than you do about this matter.

You really don't get math do you. 1/1000 of 1% wouldln't even cover Baltimore, let alone Chicago.

The UCR shows that 1/1000 of 1% covers the entire country.

 

[IM2]

The answer is for Black folk to stop tolerating crime in the Black culture and society.

The answer is that whites like you stop tolerating crime in the white culture and society that is the cause of your white asses getting annually arrested at triple the number of blacks.

We're not the ones rioting and defending criminals.
That would be you guys.

You do riot and you do defend criminals.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

The answer is for Black folk to stop tolerating crime in the Black culture and society.

The answer is that whites like you stop tolerating crime in the white culture and society that is the cause of your white asses getting annually arrested at triple the number of blacks.

We're not the ones rioting and defending criminals.
That would be you guys.

You do riot and you do defend criminals.

Got any links?