Thread: Zimmerman verdict
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Old 07-28-2013, 08:58 PM
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…not my conversation but I wanted to point out for the gang that about 40% of the roughly 2.1 million people incarcerated in the US are black. That is primary evidence that indicates an overwhelming conviction rate bias.

Roughly 12.5% of the US population is black.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics_of_incarcerated_African-American_males
No, it indicates a high proportion of people who are arrested for drugs are black. It does not ptove that they were arrested for drugs BECAUSE they were black.

Correlation is not causation.