Why are their such so many blacks in prison?

What do you want if not excuses or BS? An answer from Google?

This month the United States celebrates the Selma-to-Montgomery marches of 1965 to commemorate our shared history of the civil rights movement and our nation’s continued progress towards racial equality. Yet decades later a broken criminal-justice system has proven that we still have a long way to go in achieving racial equality.
Today people of color continue to be disproportionately incarcerated, policed, and sentenced to death at significantly higher rates than their white counterparts. Further, racial disparities in the criminal-justice system threaten communities of color—disenfranchising thousands by limiting voting rights and denying equal access to employment, housing, public benefits, and education to millions more. In light of these disparities, it is imperative that criminal-justice reform evolves as the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

Below we outline the top 10 facts pertaining to the criminal-justice system’s impact on communities of color.

1. While people of color make up about 30 percent of the United States’ population, they account for 60 percent of those imprisoned. The prison population grew by 700 percent from 1970 to 2005, a rate that is outpacing crime and population rates. The incarceration rates disproportionately impact men of color: 1 in every 15 African American men and 1 in every 36 Hispanic men are incarcerated in comparison to 1 in every 106 white men.
2. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, one in three black men can expect to go to prison in their lifetime. Individuals of color have a disproportionate number of encounters with law enforcement, indicating that racial profiling continues to be a problem. A report by the Department of Justice found that blacks and Hispanics were approximately three times more likely to be searched during a traffic stop than white motorists. African Americans were twice as likely to be arrested and almost four times as likely to experience the use of force during encounters with the police.
3. Students of color face harsher punishments in school than their white peers, leading to a higher number of youth of color incarcerated. Black and Hispanic students represent more than 70 percent of those involved in school-related arrests or referrals to law enforcement. Currently, African Americans make up two-fifths and Hispanics one-fifth of confined youth today.
4. According to recent data by the Department of Education, African American students are arrested far more often than their white classmates. The data showed that 96,000 students were arrested and 242,000 referred to law enforcement by schools during the 2009-10 school year. Of those students, black and Hispanic students made up more than 70 percent of arrested or referred students. Harsh school punishments, from suspensions to arrests, have led to high numbers of youth of color coming into contact with the juvenile-justice system and at an earlier age.
5. African American youth have higher rates of juvenile incarceration and are more likely to be sentenced to adult prison. According to the Sentencing Project, even though African American juvenile youth are about 16 percent of the youth population, 37 percent of their cases are moved to criminal court and 58 percent of African American youth are sent to adult prisons.
6. As the number of women incarcerated has increased by 800 percent over the last three decades, women of color have been disproportionately represented. While the number of women incarcerated is relatively low, the racial and ethnic disparities are startling. African American women are three times more likely than white women to be incarcerated, while Hispanic women are 69 percent more likely than white women to be incarcerated.
7. The war on drugs has been waged primarily in communities of color where people of color are more likely to receive higher offenses. According to Human Rights Watch, people of color are no more likely to use or sell illegal drugs than whites, but they have higher rate of arrests. African Americans comprise 14 percent of regular drug users but are 37 percent of those arrested for drug offenses. From 1980 to 2007 about one in three of the 25.4 million adults arrested for drugs was African American.
8. Once convicted, black offenders receive longer sentences compared to white offenders. The U.S. Sentencing Commission stated that in the federal system black offenders receive sentences that are 10 percent longer than white offenders for the same crimes. The Sentencing Project reports that African Americans are 21 percent more likely to receive mandatory-minimum sentences than white defendants and are 20 percent more like to be sentenced to prison.
9. Voter laws that prohibit people with felony convictions to vote disproportionately impact men of color. An estimated 5.3 million Americans are denied the right to vote based on a past felony conviction. Felony disenfranchisement is exaggerated by racial disparities in the criminal-justice system, ultimately denying 13 percent of African American men the right to vote. Felony-disenfranchisement policies have led to 11 states denying the right to vote to more than 10 percent of their African American population.

10. Studies have shown that people of color face disparities in wage trajectory following release from prison. Evidence shows that spending time in prison affects wage trajectories with a disproportionate impact on black men and women. The results show no evidence of racial divergence in wages prior to incarceration; however, following release from prison, wages grow at a 21 percent slower rate for black former inmates compared to white ex-convicts. A number of states have bans on people with certain convictions working in domestic health-service industries such as nursing, child care, and home health care—areas in which many poor women and women of color are disproportionately concentrated.
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2012/03/13/11351/the-top-10-most-startling-facts-about-people-of-color-and-criminal-justice-in-the-united-states/

There it is in a nutshell, Whites hate Blacks. Always have always will no matter how much Whites pretend to smile they always have the upper hand and the last word. No excuses or BS. No political correctness. Happy?

Poor home life. No father figures. Poor schooling in inner cities. No sense of responsibility due to constant hand outs. Take your pick.

Statistically , black males are more likely to come from single parent families and to have low educational achievements

The question is what puts them into this positon -- genetic disposition ,personal choices , or social circumstances ?

poor identification with family, culture, community, or country. They think everyone is against them so they act that way.

How about this for a simple answer......They commit a lot of crimes, and they are not smart enough to NOT get caught.

Jim B.

Toronto.

because most blacks are poor as **** so they have to commit crimes to make money

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Because they heard a voice.Because they are too lazy to work.Because it is tradition.Or cops are color blind.

I can only speculate and give my opinion. None of my statements are based on any specific facts nor are they trying to lay blame.

Regardless of one's ethnicity, when people can't advance in society, they just simply give up - it's the easy way out. When the parents give up, so do the children in some family units. It goes toward parenting skills and motivation. When they can't advance, crime becomes a factor. Although I'm not a fan of Jessie Jackson, he once said that sometimes, when a black man goes to prison, it's a step up from where he came from. He now has the food, shelter, clothing and medical care that was missing from his former environment.

There are people who come from that environment that do break away and become successful.

There's an 80/20 guide called the Pareto principle. 80% of your healthcare dollars are spent on the last 20% of your life. 80% of the country's wealth is owned by 20% of the population. Your vegetable garden suffers from 20% loss due to insects and other issues, your garden is 80% productive. 80% of all crimes (felonies and misdemeanors) are committed by 20% of the population. 80% of the prison population are black because they commit 80% of the crimes. 20% of the prison population is made up of others who committed 20% of the remaining crimes. Can't just take the prison population on its own, you have to look at who's committing the crimes and the degree of the offenses.

Easy answer, the Media. Think about it. Growing up the movies told us white cops black robbers. We are programmed from the jump off. That's why kids from H.S become cops to harass blacks. Never ending cycle

Because they are downtrodden by white people obviously.

That's why Obama put a wise Latina on the Supreme Court because she said she would be far more capable of reaching a fair verdict than an old white man.