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Those often-quoted statistics are not exactly a lie, but they do give a distorted picture that often becomes misused as an excuse by many for fear of blacks and other non-whites. Most of those statistics come from the FBI’s reports of who gets arrested. Blacks make up a much higher proportion of that, and even a greater percentage of the prison and jail population, but they do NOT make up the majority of actual criminals. The Justice Department makes annual surveys of crime victims that give a much more accurate picture. By their figures, about 2/3 to 3/4 of the violent criminals in the United States are white, not too different from the proportion in the general population. What this says is that blacks and other non-whites get the great majority of law enforcement attention, which has some pretty disturbing implications for the amount of continuing racism among cops.

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Name : ACC, Race : Mexican and American Indian, City : W. Lafayette, State : IN, Country : United States, Occupation : Grad student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, 

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