Martin O'Malley

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)

14. You've badly garbled the statistic

Mon May 4, 2015, 09:12 PM

May 2015

You write: "One sixth of the population was incarcerated, that in itself is unacceptable."

The actual datum was that the number of arrests was equal to one-sixth of the number of people living in the city. I'm sure quite a few didn't lead to incarceration. Furthermore, because some people were undoubtedly arrested multiple times, it wouldn't even be correct to say that one-sixth of the people were arrested.

There was certainly a big increase in arrests, because of a change in the city's approach to policing -- a change that probably had both good and bad consequences.

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

Recommendations

0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

14 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

O'Malley: Blacks are not 'disposable citizens.' [View all] elleng May 2015 OP

He didn't feel that way when he was mayor. giftedgirl77 May 2015 #1

Wrong. elleng May 2015 #2

Oh yeah, that's why he took the whole broken windows giftedgirl77 May 2015 #4

O'Malley left office in 2007 and I am no fan of CompStat — and I want to make that clear. Raine1967 May 2015 #5

No, it wasn't just Baltimore but that doesn't exonerate him. giftedgirl77 May 2015 #6

Ok. You will never vote for him. Raine1967 May 2015 #7

I'm well aware of the SOP, O'Malley stands a snowballs chance giftedgirl77 May 2015 #8

Perhaps this is not the group for you. Raine1967 May 2015 #10

Every major city in this country followed that form of policing between 1990s and ealry 2000s. FSogol May 2015 #12

You've badly garbled the statistic Jim Lane May 2015 #14

Agreed. bravenak May 2015 #3

Didn't realize this was the O'Malley group trashing now giftedgirl77 May 2015 #9

Trashing? Raine1967 May 2015 #11

No, I just don't want to offend anyone in here with my opposing views giftedgirl77 May 2015 #13