RE: Changing the banner to promote BLM
July 6, 2020 at 11:59 am
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2020 at 12:09 pm by Duty.)
(July 6, 2020 at 9:49 am)Eleven Wrote: Oh, by all means, provide the statistical link for that which you accept as gospel.
OK then: those links. I couldn't find the exact statistics I'd quoted, I hold my hands up there, I was just repeating what I'd heard. I have found statistics however which draw a more equitable yet still potent conclusion. Blacks criminals/arrestables no more likely to be killed by police than non-blacks.
First, taking the figures for 2019 - police killings of blacks make up around a third of total police killings. https://www.statista.com/statistics/5851...e-by-race/
Second, blacks make up around 40% of current prison population. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/inca...e-u-s.html
So...well, lets ere on the side of caution and equality: police killings of black criminals/arrestables occur at a level which is to be expected if the police behaved in a colourblind way RE "opening fire"....all be it, tragically enough, an occasionally "trigger happy" colourblind way. Well done police, I guess. Kudos.