Ron Guhname, Inductivist, October 5, 2019

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So who are the traffickers? Is the stereotype of the black pimp based in reality?

This Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report gives the breakdown:

Percent of all trafficker suspects by race

Blacks 43.7

Hispanics 29.2

Asians 13.2

Whites 12.8

Other 1.2

I’ll assume many of the “others” are American Indians. Of course, we need to adjust for group size. Since whites have the lowest rate, we’ll make them the comparison group. The list below shows how many times a member of a given group is more likely to be a pimp than a white person:

Blacks 16.8

Hispanics 8.1

Asians 16.5

Others 6.0

Compared to whites, blacks are 16.8 times more likely to be pimps. That’s a huge difference, but the difference is actually larger for Asians. (I treated “Other” as Native Americans, but that is probably an inflated number since the category will include non-Natives).

Asians usually have the lowest crime rates (by far) but not here. {snip}