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> An African American is much more likely to be a murderer than a white American [citation needed] It is true that a black man is more likely to be prosecuted

> An African American is much more likely to be a murderer than a white American [citation needed] It is true that a black man is more likely to be prosecuted for murder but that’s a wholly different statistic.

n4r9 7y ago
Fair point, but it equally applies to OP's assertion about men being more likely to be prosecuted for sex offenses.
- uncle_j 7y ago
  It isn't my assertion. The crime statistics in both the UK and the USA back this up. It is something like 96% of all prosecutions of sexual assault are men. EDIT: In fact it is higher at least in the UK > In 2011, males accounted for the vast majority of prosecutions for sexual offences (98.2 per cent). https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/214970/sexual-offending-overview-jan-2013.pdf https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
  - n4r9 7y ago
    Sorry, wasn't questioning the statement, but by definition it is something you're asserting.
    - uncle_j 7y ago
      Fair enough.
username90 7y ago
A majority of murders are solved so there is no room for the kind of bias you are suggesting.
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hammernail 7y ago
~90% murders happen within the same ethnic group. In a given year, there are about as many black bodies as white bodies, while the population ratio is 1 : 6. https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-29/race-and-homicide-in-america-by-the-numbers https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-29/race-and-hom... > Of the 13,455 cases from last year in which the FBI listed a victim's racial information, 7,039 victims – or 52.3 percent – were black. That compares with 5,854 cases – or 43.5 percent – in which the victim was white, an increase of about 8 percent from last year. > It's a disparity that becomes more pronounced in the context of population, as 2015 Census estimates suggest that whites account for 77.1 percent of the overall U.S. population of roughly 321 million, while blacks comprise 13.3 percent.

n4r9 7y ago

Fair point, but it equally applies to OP's assertion about men being more likely to be prosecuted for sex offenses.

uncle_j 7y ago
It isn't my assertion. The crime statistics in both the UK and the USA back this up. It is something like 96% of all prosecutions of sexual assault are men. EDIT: In fact it is higher at least in the UK > In 2011, males accounted for the vast majority of prosecutions for sexual offences (98.2 per cent). https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/214970/sexual-offending-overview-jan-2013.pdf https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
- n4r9 7y ago
  Sorry, wasn't questioning the statement, but by definition it is something you're asserting.
  - uncle_j 7y ago
    Fair enough.

username90 7y ago

A majority of murders are solved so there is no room for the kind of bias you are suggesting.

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hammernail 7y ago

~90% murders happen within the same ethnic group. In a given year, there are about as many black bodies as white bodies, while the population ratio is 1 : 6. https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-29/race-and-homicide-in-america-by-the-numbers https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-29/race-and-hom... > Of the 13,455 cases from last year in which the FBI listed a victim's racial information, 7,039 victims – or 52.3 percent – were black. That compares with 5,854 cases – or 43.5 percent – in which the victim was white, an increase of about 8 percent from last year. > It's a disparity that becomes more pronounced in the context of population, as 2015 Census estimates suggest that whites account for 77.1 percent of the overall U.S. population of roughly 321 million, while blacks comprise 13.3 percent.