Another White Supremacy Mystery: Study Shows 90% of People Incarcerated in NYC Jails are Non-White (57% Black). Most are Held Pre-Trial. Were They Locked Up by MAGA Republicans or Liberal Prosecutors?

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From [HERE] Despite criminal justice reforms enacted over the past few years, Black people were jailed at a rate 11.6 times higher than white people in 2021 — more than double what it was five years earlier, according to a new report. 

That’s up from the 10.2 rate in 2020 and 4.8 in 2016, the report by John Jay College’s Data Collaborative for Justice published Tuesday found.

All told, Black and Hispanic people made up almost 90% of jail admissions in 2021 despite only comprising 52% of the city’s general population, the review noted. [MORE]

THIS IS BLACK POWER and the power of the vote? NYC POLITICS is dominated by white liberal puppeticians AND BLACK ROLEBOTS ELECTED BY AN ENTHUSIASTIC BLACK VOTARY - AND THE QUALITY OF BLACK CITIZENSHIP STAYS LOW.. NYC has a Black mayor (Eric Adams), Black Attorney Generals (Alvin Bragg, Manhattan) (Letitia James Brooklyn), Black state Assembly Leader (Carl Heastie Bronx), Black Public Advocate (Jumaane Williams Brooklyn), Black DA (Darcel Clark, Bronx), Black Borough President (Donovan Richards Queens) and numerous Black judges. Add to this Black legislators who hold 13 of 51 seats on the City Council, 22 of 150 seats in the state Assembly, and eight of 63 seats in the state Senate. There are also four Black congressional representatives —Gregory Meeks, Hakeem Jeffries, Yvette Clarke, and Jamaal Bowman and hundreds of liberal democrats all levels of government who dominate City politics and government agencies. Although voter turnout amongst Blacks in ‘the mecca’ is high, the quality of Black citizenship stays low; law abiding Blacks are frequently stopped and searched by police in their neighborhoods or cars, Blacks and Latinos make up 90% of all persons and arrested and charged, Rikers Jail is disproportionately packed with Blacks held pre-trial in reprehensible conditions, a majority of all homeless people are black, Black unemployment stays high, 63% of black families in New York are in the bottom half of the income distribution, blacks are routinely struck from juries, Blacks can be murdered in broad daylight by police without any accountability (Eric Garner) and so on.

According to the Data Collaborative for Justice, In 2021, Black (57%) and Hispanic (30%) people made up almost 90% of New York City’s over 16,000 jail admissions. Yet, as of the 2021 census, Black people only made up 22% and Hispanic people 30% of the City's general population. White people made up 33% of the City's population but only 7% of its jail admissions, and Asian people made up 15% of the City's population but 2% of admissions (Exhibit 2.1).35

Relative to the general population, the City’s jail admission rate per 100,000 people was 11.6 times higher for Black than white people in 2021. Hispanic individuals were 4.7 times more likely to be ad- mitted to jail than white people.37 Notably, Hispanic people’s incarceration in NYC jails is consistent with its overall share of the City’s general population; in this sense, the City’s Hispanic population lies at the pivot-point between the sizable over-incarceration of Black and sizable under-incarceration of white people.

How has the composition of people admitted to jail changed in recent years (if at all)?

From 2016 to 2021, jail admissions dropped for all groups, yet in relative terms, racial disparities widened among those who continued to be incarcerated. Key findings include:

  • Declining Jail Admissions for All Racial/Ethnic Groups: Over the past five years, the number of people admitted to the City's jails steadily decreased, with every racial/ethnic group experiencing a sizable reduction. On balance, admissions dropped 74% from 60,822 in 2016 to 15,736 in 2020, before an uptick to 16,339 in 2021 (Exhibit 2.2).38

  • Rising Racial Disparities Over Five Years: Even as the absolute number of jail admissions dropped, relative disparities grew. From 2016 to 2021, Black people's share of jail admissions increased by 4 percentage points (53% to 57%), while white people's share declined by 2 points and Hispanic people's share declined by 3 points (Exhibit 2.3).

  • Intensifying Disparities From 2020 to 2021: Most of the five-year uptick in racial disparities occurred from 2020 to 2021. Between those two recent years, admissions of Black New Yorkers into the City’s jails increased by almost 4 percentage points compared to no statistically meaningful change among Hispanic or white people. [MORE]