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The Plight of Our Young Black Men
A new study details a shocking fact: By age 23, half of young black men will have been arrested. Even if you know that African Americans are arrested at a greater rate than their white counterparts, it’s still a shock to see the scale of the disparity. To wit, according to a new study published in the Journal of Crime & Delinquency, nearly 50 percent of all black males have been arrested by the age of 23. Overall, 30 percent of black men have been arrested by age 18, and those numbers jump-respectively-to 49 percent, 44 percent, and 38 percent after five years.