Study finds that women make up around a quarter of arrests, this is apparently too much.

BrickDaddyShark · 2020-11-02T16:03:41+00:00

The study finds that women are increasingly being arrested for the crimes they commit. It also shows that despite them being the subject of increasing “non voluntary police contact” (having the cops called on you for crimes in public) they are magnitudes less likely than men to be arrested in these contacts.

The conclusion of all that data? Women are being oppressed by the police and we should be working to create “gender responsive policies” (translation: sexist policies) to reduce the already low number of women arrested.

DiamondGP · 2020-11-02T16:52:46+00:00

So much of that link is evidence of systematic inequality for men rephrased as a bias against women. Here are two of my favorite:

Women interact with police more than arrest statistics suggest ... That means that for every woman arrested, five more women were approached by police

In other words, 84% of recorded women's interactions with police don't result in an arrest. Eyeballing their 2015 survey source, this shows that men incur more interactions with police and are ~50% more likely to be arrested per interaction. So this statistic is really demonstrating the privilege women carry.

the number of women arrested declined only 6.4 percent. As men’s arrest rates have fallen women’s arrest rates have remained fairly flat. As a result, women make up an increasingly large share of all arrests.

The implication being that women aren't seeing the same progress as men, and that this is a problem. But a better lens is that women already enjoy relatively just treatment from police and courts, and there's less room to improve. An increase in the fraction of arrests going to women (but not in absolute numbers) is only indicative of progress in addressing the inequalities men face.

This point is especially worth stressing, as the same fallacy appears in multiple places throughout the article, and elsewhere in media at large. Men improving in a category women already perform well in (causing the comparative gap to shrink) is not evidence that things are getting worse for women. This exact point gets (rightly) made in reverse for many avenues of feminist progress, why is the corollary so tough to grasp?

mrmcthrowaway19 · 2020-11-02T16:05:21+00:00

If you really want to see the bias for women in the system look at sentencing disparities.

TintelFroot · 2020-11-02T16:40:31+00:00

We're finally moving toward equality and now they're having second thoughts because it's not all privilege's, how ironic.

OkLetterhead10 · 2020-11-02T18:28:21+00:00

Women make up an increasingly large share of arrests

Why is this considered a bad thing ? that's good we need to make it 50/50 !

running246 · 2020-11-02T18:17:23+00:00

Males were convicted of the vast majority of homicides in the United States, representing 89.5% of the total number of offenders.

https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf

2011 arrest data from the FBI:

Males constituted 98.9% of those arrested for forcible rape
Males constituted 87.9% of those arrested for robbery
Males constituted 85.0% of those arrested for burglary
Males constituted 83.0% of those arrested for arson.
Males constituted 81.7% of those arrested for vandalism.
Males constituted 81.5% of those arrested for motor-vehicle theft.
Males constituted 79.7% of those arrested for offenses against family and children.
Males constituted 77.8% of those arrested for aggravated assault
Males constituted 58.7% of those arrested for fraud.
Males constituted 57.3% of those arrested for larceny-theft.
Males constituted 51.3% of those arrested for embezzlement

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/table_66_arrests_suburban_areas_by_sex_2011.xls

Title	Study finds that women make up around a quarter of arrests, this is apparently too much.
Author	BrickDaddyShark
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Date	November 2, 2020 3:59 PM UTC (5 years ago)
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