. Some notes on Negro crime, particularly in Georgia; . t of crime,the number of lynchings, and the State income from crime. The upwardtendencies are the increase in population, the increase in percentage ofthose able to read and write, and the increase in property. Taking these, one by one, we have: DOWNWARD TENDENCIES (a) Amount of Crime. The diagram on page 61 shows the Negro prisonpopulation of Georgia per 100,000 of total Negro population. The exactfigures are given on page 33. These figures show that serious Negrocrime is decreasing. Moreover, the full measure of that decrease ishere but
. Some notes on Negro crime, particularly in Georgia; . t of crime,the number of lynchings, and the State income from crime. The upwardtendencies are the increase in population, the increase in percentage ofthose able to read and write, and the increase in property. Taking these, one by one, we have: DOWNWARD TENDENCIES (a) Amount of Crime. The diagram on page 61 shows the Negro prisonpopulation of Georgia per 100,000 of total Negro population. The exactfigures are given on page 33. These figures show that serious Negrocrime is decreasing. Moreover, the full measure of that decrease ishere but partially shown as the argument on page 11 has proven. Thelarge proportion of life and long term sentences for Negroes makes theNegro population apparently responsible for considerably more crimethan it really is. If the figures for commitments, year by year, wereavailable the decrease in Negro crime in the last ten years would beeven more striking. (b) Lynchings. The absolute numbers of lynchings in Georgia, as re-ported by the Chicago Tribune, are:. Averaging these for five year periods and plotting the average numberof lynchings for the half decades, we have the diagram on page 61. Itis interesting to note, first, that the crest of the wave of lynching law-lessness has evidently passed, and secondly, that the crest of the waveapparently preceded the crest of the wave of crime. It would be toomuch perhaps to say that it caused an increase of crime, but certainlyit did not lessen crime. (c) State Income from Crime. From 1876-1904 the State of Georgia hasreceived from traffic in criminals a net income over expenses of nearlynine hundred thousand dollars from the sale of criminals to privatecontractors. This sum has been as follows: NEGRO CRIMENet Income of State from Crime in Georgia 61 Year Income perannum Total 1876-99 $ 15,*61,, 225, $345,, 1900 1901-3 243, 225, 1904 Total $874, The sinister increase of this blood mo
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