It's probably closer to less than 1%. Even if we isolate the population we are looking at to urban, black, men, between the ages of 14-40; the vast and sweeping majority of those commit no crimes. This is basically true for all criminology. It's not a situation where everyone who commits a crime, commit one or two crimes. The career criminals commit tens of thousands of crimes in their lives; almost none ever being prosecuted.
This is why mass incarceration, and the death penalty work to reduce crime. You literally remove the career criminals who commit close to 80% of the crime.
It's probably closer to less than 1%. Even if we isolate the population we are looking at to urban, black, men, between the ages of 14-40; the vast and sweeping majority of those commit no crimes. This is basically true for all criminology. It's not a situation where everyone who commits a crime, commit one or two crimes. The career criminals commit tens of thousands of crimes in their lives; almost none ever being prosecuted.
This is why mass incarceration, and the death penalty work to reduce crime. You literally remove the career criminals who commit close to 80% of the crime.