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It doesn't contract the 13/50 stat at all. And also says that "white people commit way more crimes in the US". Specifically: 4,209 (48.7%) "murders and nonnegl
by basseq 7y ago
It doesn't contract the 13/50 stat at all. And also says that "white people commit way more crimes in the US".
Specifically: 4,209 (48.7%) "murders and nonnegligent manslaughter" ("murders") are categorized under race=Black. Incidentally, still less than race=White (4,261 or 49.3%).
Indeed, 12.6% of respondents in the 2010 census self-identified as "Black or African American".
That's your 13/50 meme.
However, murders are <0.085% of all crimes tallied in the FBI report, and are far outweighed by crimes like larceny (1M instances), drug abuse violations (1.27M), DUIs (1M), and "Other" (2.9M), where race=White are all by far the majority.
Thus, 69.4% of crimes are committed by race=White, so "white people commit way more crimes in the US" is also true.
- steveeq1 7y agothen your stats are misleading. When you calculate per-capita, then blacks commit way more crimes than whites.
- steveeq1 7y agoyes, downvote instead of proving my point wrong.
- AnthonyMouse 7y agoBecause per capita only matters when you're comparing groups to each other, not when you're trying to minimize the overall number of failures in the system.
- steveeq1 7y agoNo, per capita helps understand where "the hot spots" are. So my answer still stands.
- AnthonyMouse 7y agoThat would only be true if the "hot spots" represented the majority of the crime, which they evidently don't.
- dcow 7y agoDude we’re talking about identifying general criminal suspects with facial recognition. Either you’re trolling or you might actually be racist. Your answer does not “stand” up anything other than a point that black people per capita in the US commit more murders than white people—which nobody is disputing or even talking about. The facial recognition we are talking about is used to pick out general suspects from a “crowd” (which is why I used arrests). We are not trying to identify per-capita murder hotspots and we most certainly don’t need facial recognition to do so. Your argument is ultimately pointless which is why you’ve been venerably downvoted.