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Your comment spurred me to look for some stats. "Race, Ethnicity, and Sex of Victim by Race, Ethnicity, and Sex of Offender, 2015" https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-i
by briandon 10y ago
Your comment spurred me to look for some stats.
"Race, Ethnicity, and Sex of Victim by Race, Ethnicity, and Sex of Offender, 2015"
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015/tables/expanded_homicide_data_table_6_murder_race_and_sex_of_vicitm_by_race_and_sex_of_offender_2015.xls https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
According to the FBI, in single-victim, single-offender homicides in 2015, 3,167 white people were slain and 500 of those murders were committed by black/African-American people. In the same year, 2,664 black/African-American people were slain and 229 of those murders were committed by white people.
Simple division: 15.8% of whites who were murdered were killed by blacks/African-Americans while only 8.6% of blacks who were murdered were killed by whites. The percentage of whites-killed-by-blacks is about 83.7% higher than vice versa.
So maybe O'Reilly may have garbled his delivery of this factoid?
- tempestn 10y agoYou're probably right that that's the original source of the messed up "fact", but what Trump originally tweeted was an image, now removed, with these contents according to politifact[1]: "Blacks killed by whites -- 2%" "Blacks killed by police -- 1%" "Whites killed by police -- 3%" "Whites killed by whites -- 16%" "Whites killed by blacks -- 81%" "Blacks killed by blacks -- 97%’ [1] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/23/donald-trump/trump-tweet-blacks-white-homicide-victims/ http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/... Edit: I'm sure there are screenshots of the initial image so you don't have to rely on politifact.. here, this includes the image and a transcript of the O'Reilly interview: http://www.factcheck.org/2015/11/trump-retweets-bogus-crime-graphic/ http://www.factcheck.org/2015/11/trump-retweets-bogus-crime-...