Saul
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Just to be clear, are you saying that black people are more likely to commit crimes, or that crimes are more likely to be committed by black people? There is a huge difference between these two statements.Not sure why this link is addressed to my attention..? If you think you are educating me you are mistaken. I can quote these statistics in my sleep. I'm the one who used to compile and provide them for the FBI's national data base for my department. Regardless, the numbers in your link are reflective of a completely different set of dynamics than the numbers I provided which indicates that based on the entire US population, police kill whites nearly 3 times more frequently than any other race. The data that you linked shows that blacks are 2 times more likely to be killed by police. Both statistics are true, however, the latter is a more significant and telling statistic considering that blacks disproportionately commit an average of 40% of all violent crimes in the USA while representing only 13% of the total US population as a race.
To my original point posted earlier, let's all assume for a minute that we can take the elements of emotion and race out of the equation and just look objectively at those numbers which speak for themselves. The conclusion is pretty simple. If you statistically commit more violent crime as a group, you are going to be more likely to have violent interaction with police as a group.
Have you also considered that these statistics are being influenced by policing patterns? For example, the most arrests in Chicago are in the Austin neighborhood, a predominately low income black neighborhood adjacent to predominately high income white neighborhoods, while most shootings occur in the Englewood neighborhood. Because policing is heavier in neighborhoods near high income white neighborhoods, there are a greater number of arrests and therefore higher statistics for the demographics in those neighborhoods, rather than an actually accurate statistical representation of criminal activity.