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Despite being ony 13% of the population, black Americans are arrested for over 50% of all violent crimes in America

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by Apprentice (1.9k points)
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This sentence is misleading if discussing all violent crimes in general. Here is a quote from a statistical brief from the US Dept. of Justice published in Jan. 2021: "Based on the 2018 NCVS and UCR, black people accounted for 29% of violent-crime ofenders and 35% of violent-crime ofenders in incidents reported to police, compared to 33% of all persons arrested for violent crimes"

https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/revcoa18.pdf
Exaggerated/ Misleading
by Genius (41.0k points)
Nice work determining that the claim seems to be exaggerated or potentially false(?). I found that in 2018 "Black people make up 33% of persons arrested for non-fatal violent crime (NVC), which includes rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and other assaults. Black people were 36% of those arrested for serious non-fatal violent crimes (SNVC), including rape, robbery, and aggravated assault" based on Prison Legal News. If we include fatal violent crime arrests would it become 50% like the claim says (since the stat is only using non-fatal violent crimes)?

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/tables/table-43

Also, based on the claim's source, what exactly would be counted as "violent" given that there are so many different types of crimes listed there? https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/tables/table-43

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