Sunday, May 9, 2021

Are We Using Raw Numbers, or Looking at the Proportion of Killings?

    Thinking it proves their point, those who say police do not kill more Blacks than Whites might well pull out a graph showing more Whites are killed, 370 Whites to 235 Blacks in 2019, 457 Whites to 241 Blacks in 2020, and 114 Whites to 62 Blacks in 2012.

   But, those are raw numbers, not taking into account that Blacks only account for 13.4 percent of the population. Proportionally, Whites, since they account for 76.3 percent of the population, are not being killed at near the same rate as Blacks.

   

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