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His entire premise is built off the following lie: “Not all the victims of police misconduct are minorities — witness a blonde Australian woman shot to death b
by IanDrake 9y ago
His entire premise is built off the following lie:
“Not all the victims of police misconduct are minorities — witness a blonde Australian woman shot to death by a Minneapolis police officer after she called 911, or an unarmed white man shot to death by a Mesa, Arizona, officer while crawling down a hotel hallway — but a disproportionate share are.”
There is nothing out of proportion. There are only people who are willing to twist statistics to their needs.
No one disagrees with the raw numbers. Relative to the percent of the black population, more blacks are killed by police.
The problem is that we’re comparing the wrong thing, as we can easily see by looking at the statistics by gender. Men are very, very, very disproportionately killed by police when compared to women if we use raw population numbers.
So are police slightly racist and very anti-men or would something else explain why police killings and population rates don’t line up perfectly by race and gender?
It turns out that the general population isn’t equally at risk to be killed by a police officer, but violent criminals are. If you look at statistics of race and gender reported by victims of violent crimes, you’ll see there is a nearly perfect ratio of police killings by race and gender.
The whole “disproportionate” statistics that “prove” police racism is bogus.