RE: 4 Officers Shot Dead By Snipers, 7 Wounded in Dallas Protest Against Police Violence
July 9, 2016 at 11:42 am
(July 9, 2016 at 4:26 am)paulpablo Wrote:(July 9, 2016 at 1:10 am)Minimalist Wrote: Which means that 60 percent aren't.
Which means 13.5 percent of the population is responsible for 40 percent of the cop killings.
Quote:There were 511 officers killed in felonious incidents and 540 offenders from 2004 to 2013, according to FBI reports. Among the total offenders, 52 percent were white, and 43 percent were black.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact...ll-police/
This means that roughly 232 offenders were black, and that roughly .000005% of that demographic were responsible for 43% of those police fatalities.
I know what you're trying to say -- blacks are disproportionately represented in these statistics -- but stating it in such a manner impugns the entire group for the actions of a miniscule few. And that's not even addressing the causes for such discrepancy, which is probably better ascribed to the sociology of being black: less access to good schools, jobs, and housing leading to more criminal behavior.
