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.
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2025
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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?
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.
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.
Clinton signed his crime bill
I wasn't familiar, thanks for the pointer. This rhetoric "though on crime" has been going on from before my birth it seems.
We cannot take our country back until we take our neighborhoods back. Four years ago this crime issue was used to divide America. I want to use it to unite America. I want to be tough on crime and good for civil rights. You can't have civil justice without order and safety.
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I'm betting that this counts field arrests and not just people that are brought to the station, booked, and detained. By that definition, my close friend circle in high school would have been right in line with this numbers.
I, a white cis-man, was technically arrested twice before I was 23 (once for possession of alcohol and once for possession of marijuana) but I've never been brought to the station or read my rights. Both times a field arrest report was filled out and I was issued an appearance ticket with a court date. This was in NY so your experiences with the same crimes might be wildly different.
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Roughly four by age 23. If you consider all the male population, the numbers would probably be considerably higher. It's indeed hard to believe...
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Grim
it helps keep the for-profit business in business, as being arrested makes it you ineligible for most military services, not all but the more specialize ones will deny you based on that, it still negotiable, except for felony, or SA any sex related crimes.
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.
they need the statistics to pad the numbers for thier budget probably.
And that is based on data only up to 2008. You know that's so much worse now.
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.
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.
White male who grew up in Idaho here.
I have been arrested on several occasions and so have a number of my friends.
I would not consider myself poor or lower class either. Id assume your theory holds some weight, but I'd also assume it follows a lot of trends we wouldn't expect as well.
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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.
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Police state
That is an insane percentage, holy crap.
also preferentially targeting Race too, and then income wise.
Arrest is different from imprisonment, it must be noted.
America bad
unironically
and 38 percent of white males
The headline is bad, but my expectation would have been something low like 1% for white men. 30% worse treatment for black men is bad, but it is not the expected 5000%.
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Why have so many people have been arrested in the US? This is crazy ridiculous.
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Thank you providing an actual source!
This title is like some boomer FaceBook shit other wise. That would normally be the minority’s are taking our jobs; shit..:
The takeaway here should be that poverty creates crime.
and that systemic racism, ie deliberate policies, maintain the status quo and keep black and non white communities poor, and even some white communities are kept poor.
they need poor whites, so they can drum up racism, and and have solid voter base, also useful cannon fodder for LEO and MAYBE the military.
the story of the rich person, the poor person, the immigrant and the 100 cookies.
the rich person takes 99 cookies, then warns to the poor person "hey, watch out, the immigrant is going to take your cookie"
It's always been an absolute and complete source of bafflement to me how many people don't seem to get this. I'm a (relatively) high earner and have no hesitation voting for the most left wing candidate on the ballot, because I think it represents good value to pay a few extra percent in tax to not have to be scared walking down the street or to keep checking my home security cameras. What's the point having wealth if I'm constantly having to protect it?
What was that? The land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy.
Is this an anti-flag lyric? It sounds so familiar
edit: wait it's rage against the machine isn't it
Can't waste the day when the night brings a hearse. So make a move and plead the 5th 'cause you can't plead the 1st.
free from rights.
Republicans will read this headline and use this stat to justify their racism - calling it a flaw in black men, instead of what it really is, a flaw in police institutions.
And if MAGA has their way, the other half will be shot.
Damn. Glad I'll never go to that backwards ass shithole country.
Republicans: The other half are guilty of something, we just haven’t got to them yet.
Land of the free...
I'd like to compare with stats for other parts of the world.
US has more people imprisoned than China. Not per capita, total.
also china loves westerners living in the country as well, particularly if you are white.
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