Report does not address ILLEGALS just non native born in United States Jails to confuse the stats. The problem is ILLEGALS!! The comments by the readers at the bottom show MOST American get it, but of course the others think anyone who disagree are HATERS.


February 27, 2008
Report dispels myth of immigrants and crime

You hear it all the time in fiery debates about illegal immigration: These undocumented immigrants are killing people left and right. They're filling up our jails and prisons. It's a powerful perception -- and tool of rhetoric -- used by critics of illegal immigration, but is it true? No, says an eye-opening report this week from the Public Policy Institute of California.

Here are key findings by the non-partisan research group:

**People born outside the United States make up about 35 percent of California's adult population but represent only about 17 percent of the state prison population.

**U.S.-born adult men are incarcerated in state prisons at rates up to 3.3 times higher than foreign-born men.

**Among men ages 18-40 - the age group most likely to commit crime - those born in the United States are 10 times more likely than immigrants to be in county jail or state prison.

Here's an excerpt from a San Jose Mercury News story on the report:

Countering a widespread belief, a new report shows California's foreign-born population -- including illegal immigrants -- makes up only a sliver of the state's population of inmates.

The report released Monday by the Public Policy Institute of California also suggests that the foreign-born population, which makes up more than a third of the state's adults, plays a disproportionately smaller role in serious crime.

"Crime, Corrections, and California: What Does Immigration Have to Do with It?" gives one of the clearest glimpses yet into the effect of immigrants and immigration on the state's justice system.

It also aims to dispel the perception that cities with large foreign-born populations are criminal hot beds, with several California cities showing a dip in police activity amid recent immigration waves.


Posted by Mizanur Rahman at February 27, 2008 08:53 AM



http://blogs.chron.com/immigration/arch ... st_92.html