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originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: LSU2018
I'm not including suicide on my list so leave Bland off of it.
Police kill people in their custody in more ways than gun fire.
originally posted by: Lucidparadox
a reply to: LSU2018
Youre leaving out the MOST important part of your statistic..
The fact that it isnt adjusted for population percentage.
The country is 76% white and 13% African American
So in all actuality.. you just proved you oppositions point. PoC are disproportionately targeted, shot, and killed in comparison to their Caucasian counterparts
Thank you, Ill be here all night.. enjoy the veal
originally posted by: VictorVonDoom
Where were the protests for Danny Shaver? Where were the cries from politicians and celebrities to curb police violence?
There weren't any. Danny Shaver was white. The media doesn't care when the police murder a white, middle class family man in cold blood on video.
Just imagine if Danny Shaver had been black.
Also, only 60 percent of everyone living in America is a non-Hispanic white, not 76 percent. The FBI lumps Hispanic crime stats in with white arrests, because Hispanics are an ethnic group, not a separate race (tell that to La Raza Unida ...).
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: Lucidparadox
a reply to: LSU2018
Youre leaving out the MOST important part of your statistic..
The fact that it isnt adjusted for population percentage.
The country is 76% white and 13% African American
So in all actuality.. you just proved you oppositions point. PoC are disproportionately targeted, shot, and killed in comparison to their Caucasian counterparts
Thank you, Ill be here all night.. enjoy the veal
So you are using wrong data points here...Not all whites commit crime just as not all blacks commit crime, so you can't use total population and need to look at who is actually doing crime.
Looking at 2018 if we add up the major crime groups put out by the FBI we get this.
Whites 3,152,000 major crimes 59%
Blacks 1,417,000 major crimes 26%
Hispanics 734,000 major crimes 14%
Others 260,000 major crimes 1%
Total 5,363,000
So your 13% of the population does 26% of the heavy crimes and with the big one murder they are over 50% of all murders.
So looking at just whites/blacks we see that blacks are damn close to 50% of what white do in crime, so if we look at the death numbers they are pretty damn close too if we account that maybe people who murder have a higher chance of dying to the police.
The big take away is 49 unarmed whites were killed to the 9 blacks, so is it safe to say if you are doing a crime and unarmed you have a higher chance to be killed by the police if you are white than black?
I think looking at statistics the most direct point is that cops do not kill more blacks because they are black.