US Federal Crime Type By Race for Year 2016.
Updated on Jan 30, 2019.
In 2016, 48% of US federal prisoners were incacerated on drug related crimes, 38% on Public Order crimes (i.e. immigration, weapons), 8% on Violent crimes (i.e. homicide, robbery), and 6% on Property crimes (i.e. burglary, fraud).
In general:
- More Blacks were incacerated on Violent, and Public Order crimes than any other race.
- More Whites were incacerated on Property crimes than any other race,
- More Hispanics were incacerated on Drug crimes than any other race.
- More Whites were incacerated on Violent, and Public Order crimes than Hispanics.
This data was collected from the US Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS).
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