I can't find a study which calculates how much just one month off a prison sentence costs at the margin, but presumably there is some discount at the margin in cases of multi-decade sentences or else what are we even paying lawyers for?
In other words, poor people can't buy down the length of their sentences, so they are statistically more likely to still be serving their prison sentence on that day when the statisticians show up with their pencils and stuff. https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/(X(1...ookieSupport=1
And poor people are statistically more likely to be Black than rich people are.
As someone else pointed out, the Apalachian region (which is almost 100% white) is one of the poorest in the country, with high levels of alcoholism and drug addiction, and yet the murder and violent crime rate there is only half the national average. So to simply revert back to the typical excuse about blacks being more likely to be poor isn't going to entirely cut it.
In addition to the historical socioeconomic factors that Billshit O'Reilly fails to point out, out of the entire black population in America about .001% convicted a murder last year. So to generalize an entire group over 1/1000 of a percent seems a bit of racial bias and/or ignorance.
He wasn't making generalizations about the the entire black population. He was showing the relative comparison between murders committed by blacks and those committed by whites and Hispanics.
Check the incarceration rates and it's 14 million Whites and 2.6 million African Americans who report using an illicit drug (5 times as many Whites are using drugs as African Americans) yet African Americans are sent to prison for drug offenses at 10 times the rate of Whites. African Americans serve virtually as much time in prison for a drug offense (58.7 months) as whites do for a violent offense (61.7 months).
So, what's the point here? That if blacks and whites were dealt with exactly the same by the legal system, all the problems in the black community would be solved? Your response basically makes O'Reilly's point. Your knee-jerk reaction is to start with the typical talking points of the "race hustlers" and "grievance industry" where the underlying premise is that blacks aren't responsible for anything until all inequity and prejudice is gone. In short, instead of even acknowledging the valid points he makes, you just go on the defensive, conveniently misinterpret what he says, and attempt to find somewhere else to put the blame.
