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Originally Posted by corporatejay
Aboriginals engage in far far risky behaviour on a per capita basis than any other ethnicity. They suffer from solvent (not substance) but solvent abuse at alarming rates, drug addiction, sexual abuse, lack of education, lack of social bonds and are more likely to end up in jail, not because the system is racist, but because they are more likely to commit crimes.
There are reasons for these, social and systemic reasons, but these are facts nonetheless. This is not a "racist" system, but it's a system that results in far more aboriginals being imprisoned.
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I'll try to dig out the stats at lunch but I remember reading that the conviction rate. Basically number of convicted or pled out / Number of Charged was significantly higher for Natives. There is no social reason for this to be the case and is essentially purely a systemic problem.