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Discrepancies between colored people and the U.S Justice System.
Kai Brown
Created on November 19, 2024
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People of Color and the American Justice System
Revealing the disparites that are overlooked.
Wrongful Inprisonment
Traffic Stops
Prisoner % by Race
American Population
Law Enforcment
This needs to change.
White Americans out weight all other races by at least 3x and yet there is still a primary disparity agaisnt colored people right down to the prison systems, wrongful convictions, violent stops, and racial profiling.
Black Americans make up 53% of the 3,200 people exonerated in the United States since 1989, even though they only make up 13.6% of the population. This is a higher number than any other race across the board.
Furthermore, Black Americans are 7x more likely to be wrongfully convicted of serious crimes than white Americans and 19x more likely than their white counterparts to be convicted wrongfully of drug related crimes.
Wrongful Convictions
Why Black & African Americans are more vulnerable to it.
Prison Inmate % by Race
Black: 38.9% of inmates White: 56.8% of inmates Asian: 1.5% of inmates Native American: 2.9% of inmates