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>Black Americans are more likely to be killed by a police officer than a criminal. According to what data? In 2017, 223 black people were shot/killed by polic

by banads 6y ago

>Black Americans are more likely to be killed by a police officer than a criminal. According to what data? In 2017, 223 black people were shot/killed by police in the US[1], while 2,627 black people were murdered by black people in the US. [1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de... [2]https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/topic-pages/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

hwillis 6y ago
Why do you think I brought up all of the "killed by a stranger" and "familial" homicides if I was going to conclude by comparing the broadest numbers? "Killed by a criminal" is not ambiguous and very clearly does not just refer to all intraracial murders. https://granta.com/violence-in-blue/ https://granta.com/violence-in-blue/ Statistica paywalls its information but verifiable records show over 400 killings of black people every year since 2010[1]. [1]: https://fatalencounters.org/our-visualizations/ https://fatalencounters.org/our-visualizations/
- banads 6y ago
  I should have stated earlier that I agree with the theory that the true primary cause of crime/murder is poverty. >Why do you think I brought up all of the "killed by a stranger" and "familial" homicides if I was going to conclude by comparing the broadest numbers? Perhaps to ignore the broader context so as to avoid confronting a big, uncomfortable, politically incorrect issue? Dead people don't care if they were murdered by a family member or a stranger. If anything, this data is more evidence of the destruction of the family structure since the 1960s. In 1960, 78% of black children were being raised in 2 parent households.[1] In 2018, 65% of black children were being raised in a single parent households.[2] [1]https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/thomas-sowell-on-the-legacy-of-slavery-vs-the-legacy-of-liberalism/ https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/thomas-sowell-on-the-legacy-o... [2]https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/107-children-in-single-parent-families-by-race#detailed/1/any/false/37,871,870,573,869,36,868,867,133,38/10,11,9,12,1,185,13/432,431 https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/107-children-in...

by banads 6y ago

hwillis 6y ago

Why do you think I brought up all of the "killed by a stranger" and "familial" homicides if I was going to conclude by comparing the broadest numbers? "Killed by a criminal" is not ambiguous and very clearly does not just refer to all intraracial murders. https://granta.com/violence-in-blue/ https://granta.com/violence-in-blue/ Statistica paywalls its information but verifiable records show over 400 killings of black people every year since 2010[1]. [1]: https://fatalencounters.org/our-visualizations/ https://fatalencounters.org/our-visualizations/

banads 6y ago
I should have stated earlier that I agree with the theory that the true primary cause of crime/murder is poverty. >Why do you think I brought up all of the "killed by a stranger" and "familial" homicides if I was going to conclude by comparing the broadest numbers? Perhaps to ignore the broader context so as to avoid confronting a big, uncomfortable, politically incorrect issue? Dead people don't care if they were murdered by a family member or a stranger. If anything, this data is more evidence of the destruction of the family structure since the 1960s. In 1960, 78% of black children were being raised in 2 parent households.[1] In 2018, 65% of black children were being raised in a single parent households.[2] [1]https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/thomas-sowell-on-the-legacy-of-slavery-vs-the-legacy-of-liberalism/ https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/thomas-sowell-on-the-legacy-o... [2]https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/107-children-in-single-parent-families-by-race#detailed/1/any/false/37,871,870,573,869,36,868,867,133,38/10,11,9,12,1,185,13/432,431 https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/107-children-in...