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Article #60Re: AUTHOR EVENT
From: Tom Sparks
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 00:00
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On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 02:31:31 GMT, chollanamdo@mindspring.com (The Sanity Inspector) bravely declared in atl.general: >On 24 Oct 2000 05:48:45 GMT, Zorba the Greek <zorba@angband.org> >shared with usenet this thought: > >>In git.general Gary James <cnjames@homemail.com> wrote: >>> With all due respect, blacks committed 53.4 % of murders in US in 1998. >> >>Wrong. 53.4% of apprehended murderers were African Americans. There's a >>great deal of racism in this country, still. > > Whatever the actual figure, the FBI crime stats reports >explicitly state that they are counting arrests--not convictions, and >not indictments. > In the early '90s, those reports used to have crimes graphed >by race, age, & sex on pie charts. They stopped, dunno why. Count the "convictions" and you'll see even higher stats. According to US News, over a third of all innercity black men have convictions - that's a convenient way to remove their votes and their running for office, isn't it? -- ^v^ Happy Halloween ^v^ Tom Sparks news:alt.thebird.copwatch CopWatch: http://thebird.org/copwatch/ THE BIRD column: http://thebird.org/publish/ Works at HeadShop: http://thebird.org/store Please don't email newsgroup replies.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e1e4,d6f9bbf32b8811ea X-Google-Attributes: gid10e1e4,public X-Google-Thread: fb36b,99740d07e37698b0,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb36b,public X-Google-Thread: 108158,d6f9bbf32b8811ea X-Google-Attributes: gid108158,public X-Google-Thread: fa15f,d6f9bbf32b8811ea X-Google-Attributes: gidfa15f,public X-Google-Thread: f46f4,d6f9bbf32b8811ea X-Google-Attributes: gidf46f4,public From: Tom Sparks <copwatch@thebird.org> Subject: Re: AUTHOR EVENT Date: 2000/10/25 Message-ID: <2q6dvs0rnnp4vb2raa47m88dir2m8tr6ks@4ax.com> X-Deja-AN: 685574033 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <39F1BF1B.A47C0E57@bks.gatech.edu> <k2k3vscs79pkrq6g51c4jq1rsllsp03p69@4ax.com> <8st61a$7si$2@news-int.gatech.edu> <39F23044.12BB5E60@homemail.com> <8stc4a$8u4$1@news-int.gatech.edu> <39F236C8.3842DEDD@homemail.com> <8stvfb$b6t$1@news-int.gatech.edu> <39F3237A.8D53955@homemail.com> <8t37rt$cmh$1@news-int.gatech.edu> <39f6459b.15803805@news.mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@navix.net X-Trace: iac5.navix.net 972463201 21511 166.102.69.55 (25 Oct 2000 08:40:01 GMT) Organization: CopWatch Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: copwatch@thebird.org NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Oct 2000 08:40:01 GMT Newsgroups: git.general,git.events,atl.general,ga.general,alt.thebird