Don't you ever say 'black on black crime' again

[Doctor_J]

95. Point taken, but some of these numbers are obscenely misleading - could in fact be classified as

nonsense. Just as an example, let's say there are 4 times as many whites as blacks in the US. Then, if, say, you chose the murders of 5 white people at random, the simple percentages imply that 4 of those murders were perpetrated by another white person, while one would be perpetrated by a black person.

2/10,000ths of 1 percent (0.0002). This means that only 1 in every 500,000 white people will be murdered by a black person in a given year.

This statement is completely content free out of context. I can't even figure out what it's doing these, except to show a small decimal number. It's like when the NRA says you're more likely to be struck by a meteor than shot by an AR-whatever. So what? That doesn't excuse any of the murders with an AR.

In fact, any given black person is 2.75 times as likely to be murdered by a white person as any given white person is to be murdered by an African American.

Again, the difference in the raw numbers of blacks and whites accounts for much of this. If the interracial murder rate was "the same", there would be many more white on black murders than the reverse.

Our entire crime rate, especially the violent crime rate, is awful. Painting a distorted picture using bogus numbers adds emotion, with almost no contribution to the solution.

rec anyway