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Serious Study: black people more likely to be wrongfully convicted

Started by Enigma, Mar 7, 2017, in Life Add to Reading List

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Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

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All Marvin Anderson ever wanted to be was a firefighter. Instead, at 18 years old, he was wrongfully convicted of r---, sodomy, abduction and robbery.

When a Virginia judge sentenced him to 210 years in prison, "My whole body went numb," Anderson told CNN. "I knew I was going to prison for something I didn't do."

It took 15 years behind bars and five years on parole before Anderson was exonerated for his crimes -- the result of DNA testing.
"I trusted in the justice system and it failed me," he said.

Anderson is just one of hundreds of black men who have been convicted of and exonerated for crimes they didn't commit. A new report from the National Registry of Exonerations, a joint project between the University of California, Irvine; University of Michigan Law School and Michigan State University College of Law, shows that black people are more likely to be wrongfully convicted than white people and are also likely to spend longer in prison before being exonerated for their crimes.

While black people represent 13% of the US population, they represent a whopping 47% of the 1,900 exonerations in the registry.

"In some cases, you see some type of explicit racism," said Samuel Gross, a law professor at University of Michigan and a senior editor of the report. "Non-implicit racism has never gone away either."

Researchers focused on three types of crimes where black people were more likely than whites to be exonerated: murder, sexual assault and drug crimes. While they acknowledged that the causes of each exoneration "differ sharply from one type of crime to another," they also said they found patterns of racial discrimination in all three groups.

According to the researchers, innocent blacks are seven times more likely to be convicted of murder than innocent white people. Gross said this was partly because homicide rates among black people are higher than among white people, and innocent black people are therefore more likely to get suspected and convicted of murder. (According to data from the FBI, 52% of murder victims in 2014 were black and 46% were white, and 53% of offenders were black compared to 45% who were white).
In addition, murder cases where a black defendant was wrongfully convicted were 22% more likely to involve police misconduct than those involving white defendants.

Black people serving time for sexual assault are three-and-a-half times more likely to be innocent than white defendants that have been convicted of sexual assault. The B*** of the racial disparities in sexual assault convictions can be explained by white victims who mistakenly identify black assailants, said Gross, particularly when the victim is a white woman and the offender a black man.

Gross said white people are less likely to accurately identify black faces -- a concept known as "cross-racial identification."

When it comes to drug crimes, innocent blacks were 12 times more likely to be convicted than innocent whites. While black and white people have similar rates of illegal drug use, black people are more likely to be arrested and convicted of such offenses than white people are, researchers found.
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Water is wet, f--- paragraphs

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Water is wet, f--k paragraphs
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Yeah, you would think it's common sense lol

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I'm sure this thread will go well.

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if u made this thread to prove to another user that u were correct about something all u did was prove u got trolled

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if u made this thread to prove to another user that u were correct about something all u did was prove u got trolled
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Nah, I just posted it because I was bored and I thought it was informative.

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yay now sweat gonna get banned and cant make his s-----y album threads

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n-----s> whites
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@Help I'm offended

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n-----s> whites
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Looks like your 'choose your favorite album of the year' thread is dead for a bit since you'll probably cop a ban for this when a mod sees it.

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Kon said

Looks like your 'choose your favorite album of the year' thread is dead for a bit since you'll probably cop a ban for this when a mod sees it.
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honestly someone should just take it over cuz he just jacked from rg in the first place

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@Help I'm offended
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Please someone! I'm crying IRL rn ;_;
People are so cruel!

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No one finna be missing that

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honestly someone should just take it over cuz he just jacked from rg in the first place
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I'ma steal it

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And fk his btch

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Kon said

Looks like your 'choose your favorite album of the year' thread is dead for a bit since you'll probably cop a ban for this when a mod sees it.
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f--- up m8

Ben said

honestly someone should just take it over cuz he just jacked from rg in the first place
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You're an autist

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im an artist dope

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And fk his btch
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Why did my d-ck go in your b---- p----?

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f--k up m8

You're an autist
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Dope moustache man

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Autist:
The singular form of autistic. Usually in reference to those who play sandbox games such as minecraft other than actual autistic peoples.

guess i play minecraft thx urban dictionary

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Buff and Loser thread-banned

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Ordinary Joel said

Buff and Loser thread-banned
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to be fair was this thread really gonna accomplish anything more productive then their d-ck swinging contest

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