I’ve generally heard the 13/53 numbers as referencing violent crime but who knows if that’s what it actually is because I’ve only ever heard people us it when being super racist.
It’s referencing violent crime arrests. If a white guy does a murder and two black guys are arrested and acquitted of it, that’s still two ticks on the black pile.
yeah I wonder a lot about the actual statistics of crime, violent crime, financial crime, labor crime etc., because the prodigious enforcement against poc, and the damn near global under-enforcement of the white collar class…
under-policing of genuine crime like wage theft, too. if you only prosecute people with melanin…
I’ve generally heard the 13/53 numbers as referencing violent crime but who knows if that’s what it actually is because I’ve only ever heard people us it when being super racist.
It’s referencing violent crime arrests. If a white guy does a murder and two black guys are arrested and acquitted of it, that’s still two ticks on the black pile.
Ah thank you, this makes more sense.
you should make comics.
yeah I wonder a lot about the actual statistics of crime, violent crime, financial crime, labor crime etc., because the prodigious enforcement against poc, and the damn near global under-enforcement of the white collar class…