A new U.S. registry put together by two universities highlights more than 2,000 innocents who were falsely convicted of serious crimes since 1989. A closer look demonstrates that half of those exonerated were African American.
The University of Michigan Law School and Northwestern University School of Law worked together to compile the data, for which they collected detailed information on 873 exonerations. Nearly 1,200 additional exonerations were identified by the researchers, although there is less data for those.
Breaking down the numbers on the 873 exonerations, researchers found that five of out ten defendants were African Americans; nine out of ten were men. More than 100 of the 873 exonerations were prisoners that had been facing death sentences.
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That is not a revelation. Blacks commit 52% of homicides in the US and 60% of violent crimes, but only make up about 14% of the population. It does not say the of 5 out of ten that were falsely convicted that the crimes were committed by another race. Crime in the black community has to do with the destruction of the black family, and not poverty or false conviction.
ReplyDeleteActually the black community is under represented in the falsely imprisoned category. This study shows whites and hispanics falsely imprisoned at a greater rate than blacks. It would be more than 50% if it weree porportional.
ReplyDeletecommon because police officers gave false info and or evidence or infomation was withheld by someone else.
ReplyDeleteWhat percentage of inmates are black?
ReplyDeleteGuilty by association
ReplyDelete11:11am Black males continue to be incarcerated at an extraordinary rate. Black males make up 35.4 percent of the jail and prison population — even though they make up less than 10 percent of the overall U.S population. Four percent of U.S. black males were in jail or prison last year, compared to 1.7 percent of Hispanic males and .7 percent of white males. In other words, black males were locked up at almost six times the rate of their white counterparts.
ReplyDeletemaybe the reason they are incarcerated is because they have a greater propensity to commit crimes. Naw that can't be the case. It just plain ol whitey keepin the black man down!
ReplyDeletePreemptive Law enforcement.
ReplyDeleteWhile were on the subject, did you know that 25% of the worlds prisoners are in United States prisons while the US boasts just 5% of the world population?
ReplyDeleteon the big big big african family tree, the apples sure do not fall from it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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