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Usually half Reps and half Dems. plus chairman.Whats the make up of the ethics committee?
Usually half Reps and half Dems. plus chairman.Whats the make up of the ethics committee?
Usually half Reps and half Dems. plus chairman.
Racial disparity: All active ethics probes focus on black lawmakers - John Bresnahan - POLITICO.com
I don't presume to have an explanation for this disparity, but it's certainly startling regardless of how you look at it.
Oh yeah, you might have a point. Look how many blacks we have in prison. :dohIt is ....
I don't doubt that we do, but I also find it hard to believe that we don't have a single white crook.
Just in terms of statistics, this is a pretty improbable situation.
violent crime and property crime aren't ethical violations.Hmmmmmmm.... let's see.
Blacks form 13.4% of the US population. (2006)
Demographics of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blacks commit 53.7% of violent crimes and 38.3% of property crimes in the US. (2006)
Bureau of Justice Statistics Key Facts at a Glance Percent of crime reported to police by race
Somebody do the math.....
violent crime and property crime aren't ethical violations.
Somebody do the math.....
It's obviously not a given, but if you want to argue that black people are more likely to be corrupt than white people by some significant factor, feel free to take the stage.
Math says it.
I don't feel like doing the numbers out right now, but try to calculate the probability that 8 people selected from a group of 435 would all be part of a 41 member subset of that group of 435.
Unless there is some other factor at play, such as black officials being 20 times more corrupt than white officials or the OCE pursuing black officials for some other reason, this is incredibly unlikely.
edit: Assuming an even distribution, the odds are 1 in 160,562,159.
Racial disparity: All active ethics probes focus on black lawmakers - John Bresnahan - POLITICO.com
I don't presume to have an explanation for this disparity, but it's certainly startling regardless of how you look at it.
I think it's more of a statistical anomaly that only 7 congress members are being investigated for ethics violations.
What does national black crime, typically related to indigence or a lack of human capital, have to do with the alleged ethics violations of well-to-do blacks among the political class?
Well gee whiz..... 13% of the population commits 57% of the crime. Could it be that the % of Black Congress critters under investigation might match the demographics? Could the same be said for the number of White Congress critters?… statistically speaking.
Whats the make up of the ethics committee?
What does national black crime, typically related to indigence or a lack of human capital, have to do with the alleged ethics violations of well-to-do blacks among the political class?
of course not, but those aren't the types of behaviors being investigated by the ethic committee.
5 and 5 Dem v. Rep, 9 white, 1 black.
Absolutely nothing, but trying to explain that to him will just result in him repeating the same thing over again, convinced that he's won the argument.
Apparently you didn't read the question correctly. Let's try that again: "What does national black crime, typically related to indigence or a lack of human capital, have to do with the alleged ethics violations of well-to-do blacks among the political class?"
See post 44.
Racial disparity: All active ethics probes focus on black lawmakers - John Bresnahan - POLITICO.com
I don't presume to have an explanation for this disparity, but it's certainly startling regardless of how you look at it.
This isn't the thread to ramble about what you consider inherent immoralities of blacks. This is a thread suited to discussion of the investigation of specific political figures that lack the indigence of the general black population.