Elon Musk doubled down on his attacks on the Anti-Defamation League over the weekend while engaging with a notorious antisemite and white nationalist who helped #BanTheADL trend
That makes a lot more sense. I tried to figure out what you were doing math wise to make that happen and I couldn’t come up with anything coherent.
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Interesting, nothing I’m really surprised by (the criminal justice system in general fucks you over if you are poor, black or male and the effects of all three compound) but it doesn’t hit the million dollar question, which is how often wrongfully convicted people are convicted in place of an actual perp of a different race? I don’t know if the data even exists to answer that one, though I suspect the set of cases where both the wrongly convicted killer and the actual killer are both known is probably too small to do anything useful with.
If you don’t see what I’m getting at, if a black man is wrongfully convicted of a murder committed by another black man, that doesn’t impact the racial breakdown because it doesn’t change what group the perpetrator belonged in. Is the implication that there is a number of black men wrongfully convicted of homicide where the actual killer was white large enough that it would have a meaningful impact on the stats?
I see what you’re getting at. Cleaning up the statistics, researching the answer to your question and finding upper and lower bounds for actual figures is beyond what I’ve got time or patience to do though. There also remains the problem that the FBI stats are self-reported by officers working in a fundamentally racist institution, so it would be likely a biased (and therefore useless) sample and therefore a pointless waste of time.
That makes a lot more sense. I tried to figure out what you were doing math wise to make that happen and I couldn’t come up with anything coherent.
Interesting, nothing I’m really surprised by (the criminal justice system in general fucks you over if you are poor, black or male and the effects of all three compound) but it doesn’t hit the million dollar question, which is how often wrongfully convicted people are convicted in place of an actual perp of a different race? I don’t know if the data even exists to answer that one, though I suspect the set of cases where both the wrongly convicted killer and the actual killer are both known is probably too small to do anything useful with.
If you don’t see what I’m getting at, if a black man is wrongfully convicted of a murder committed by another black man, that doesn’t impact the racial breakdown because it doesn’t change what group the perpetrator belonged in. Is the implication that there is a number of black men wrongfully convicted of homicide where the actual killer was white large enough that it would have a meaningful impact on the stats?
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I see what you’re getting at. Cleaning up the statistics, researching the answer to your question and finding upper and lower bounds for actual figures is beyond what I’ve got time or patience to do though. There also remains the problem that the FBI stats are self-reported by officers working in a fundamentally racist institution, so it would be likely a biased (and therefore useless) sample and therefore a pointless waste of time.