What is the number of African Americans going in the system? The crime rate has gone up by the time. Our jail system has grown by the years not just by different raise but also with African American. Another thing is that police officers see an African American walking in the night and they stop them, and maybe arrest them. That’s another reason why the increase number of African American has gotten higher.
The rate for children under the age of 21 is about 57,000 and are in the juvenile detention. An African American person is about 3.7 times more likely to be arrested for possession of marijuana or other drugs.(Quigley, Billy) There has been research and studies that have been found that in some states Black people were more arrested for marijuana than whites. If they want to bail them out it’s about 500,000 just for them to get out of the jail system. There are families that look for bonds such as money to try and get their families out of jail or prison. 40-reasons-why-our-jails-are-full-of-black-and-poor
There is more African American people in jail than whites.(Williams, Janice) African Americans represent more than half of the prison in 11 different states. There is a big chance that there is racial profiling from …show more content…
(.Flaherty, Colin)There has been a lot of cases where this has happened already. There is this guy named Strine and he wants to find a way on how he could stop this, and black males won’t get back in prison for no reason. Strine has said that 6 out 10 Delaware prison are blacks.there’s a lot of black people in prison for murder but when a white person does a murder they get away with it. White male do the same crime as blacks and the white males don’t get charge with nothing and they let them go but for the African American they put them in jail and prison and have to do