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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
The question is though are natives 'more likely to commit a crime?' or are they just far more likely to be charged with a crime, as they live in a massively policed neighbourhood, get crappy legal advice and end up pleading guilty while just as many white people are using and selling drugs get into fights or the like but tend to get ignored as they have houses and don't live in an easily policed area
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Also to be fair, looking solely as the RCMP for data can't be accurate as the types of areas they police, contributes to the type of persons they deal with. For example, I would think if you were to take the same data from urban police services, the numbers would be much different.