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Originally Posted by OldDog
Thanks, Bob, for your thoughtful comment. Natch you have no problem with federal agencies being staffed with left-wing idealogues.
To continue...
"WASHINGTON — Nearly two times a week in the United States, a white police officer killed a black person during a seven-year period ending in 2012, according to the most recent accounts of justifiable homicide reported to the FBI. On average, there were 96 such incidents among at least 400 police killings each year that were reported to the FBI by local police."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...data/14060357/
96 of 400, or 24%.
According to the US Department of Justice, blacks accounted for 52.5% of homicide offenders from 1980 to 2008, with whites 45.3% and Native Americans and Asians 2.2%. The offending rate for blacks was almost 8 times higher than whites, and the victim rate 6 times higher. According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reports, in the year 2008 black youths, who make up 16% of the youth population, accounted for 52% of juvenile violent crime arrests, including 58.5% of youth arrests for homicide and 67% for robbery. Black youths were overrepresented in all offense categories except DUI, liquor laws and drunkenness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_an..._United_States
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...133967273.html
Is it really a stretch that black deaths at the hands of police make up 24% of the total deaths at the hands of the police?
As for the DOJ, never in history has it inserted itself into a case as quickly as it has this one. Why do you suppose that is? |
'The reports show that 18% of the blacks killed during those seven years were under age 21, compared to 8.7% of whites. The victim in Ferguson was 18-year-old Michael Brown. Police have yet to identify the officer who shot him; witnesses have said the officer was white.
While the racial analysis is striking, the database it's based on has been long considered flawed and largely incomplete.'
this is also from your first article you posted, old dog.
so, do you consider the first article a good source? the database is flawed and incomplete, yet you choose to use the 24% part, but don't mention the other stat further down, which is definitely skewed in another direction.
also, how many blacks were killed by black officers, as there is also evidence of bias from black officers toward black suspects.