Barbed wire at Maryland Correctional Training Center in Hagerstown, Md., photographed on April 21, 2011. By Charles Lane and Charles Lane Editorial writer and columnist specializing in economic and fiscal policy Email Bio Follow Keith Humphreys Keith Humphreys Bio April 30 at 2:50 PM Bad news about race and criminal justice is all around us.
These remarkable data are hidden in plain sight, in the latest annual statistical survey of prisoners issued last week by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Comparing 2017 survey results with prior years shows that the African American male imprisonment rate has dropped by a third since its peak and is now at a level not seen since 1991. African American women’s rate of imprisonment has dropped 57 percent from its peak and is now at a 30-year low.
Dramatic failures command attention and therefore often drive efforts at policy reform and innovation. Yet success can be just as informative. It’s just as vital to understand why black imprisonment rates have fallen as it was to understand why they rose. Yet, so far, there is still more discussion about the latter than the former.
Obviously, there is a risk of feeding complacency in taking note of — and celebrating — the decrease in black imprisonment. Yet to do otherwise risks feeding defeatism in the face of clear evidence that progress is possible. It also would miss an opportunity to break down racist myths: The declining imprisonment rate for African Americans definitively rebuts any notion of intractable black criminality.
Let me guess ... they commit less crimes
Nobody should be doing crime-All imprisonment rates should be down?
Right
Because: MAGA
I hit the paywall but let me guess: the conclusion isn’t Trump
Maybe because the police are too busy out there keeping the violent Democrat mobs from attacking innocent people and don’t have time to arrest people committing other crimes. 🤔
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