Translation: “A black man is familiar with freedom in America. Here it is, uncle Tom’s cabin.”
By age 23, 49 percent of black males, 44 percent of Hispanic males and 38 percent of white males have been arrested.
And that is based on data only up to 2008. You know that’s so much worse now.
Police state
Maybe we just arrest people and throw them in jail way too fucking much. Land of the imprisoned, home of the DA
I called 911 as the victim of DV, they came and arrested both of us. The system is so broken.
Jesus fucking shit thats horrifying
All of those sound insanely high. If you take a group of 10 random adult men from the US, roughly four of them have been arrested?
Is a lot of it for underage drinking because that law is so far from lived reality?
Roughly 25% of the country will be arrested, or put on probation at least once in their lives. That’s been a steady statistic since the early '90s when Clinton signed his crime bill.
I got arrested as a kid for skipping school! I was being sexually assaulted in the school bathroom and was terrified of leaving the house, but obviously the way to solve that was cuffing me and throwing me in juvie.
Wow that’s fucked. In my country the kids going to school is the parents legal responsibility, they can actually get fined if the child is delinquent. But never would the child be arrested.
I’m very sorry that happened to you, both the sexual assault and the police treatment.
That is an insane percentage, holy crap.
also preferentially targeting Race too, and then income wise.
I’m in my 40s and have met, I don’t know, at least several hundred people over my lifetime more than once. At least as far as I know none of them has been in actual prison. Few have spent their night on the jail when getting too drunk (and obviously done some stupid shit while wasted) and police have “offered” them a bed to sober up but that’s it.
Obviously not in the US. I can’t even imagine society where nearly every other male you encounter would’ve been in prison at some point.
us does have the highest amount PRISONERS in the world, and incarceration rate. recividism is pretty high, as there is almost non-existent rehabilitation for offendors. also the fact they dont prepare inmates for the outside world years later, when things changed, so its almost impossible to get a job, so they commit another crime just so they stay in prison.
Same, except I am in the US. I suspect this is highly stratified by class, such that either nobody you know has been arrested or everybody you know has been arrested.
Yeah. I’ve (unfortunately) been in the US for the last few years. I’m at an university though, so most of my American peers come from a fairy rich (and mostly white) background. None of them have ever been arrested.
Arrest is different from imprisonment, it must be noted.
