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Humanist_Activist

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8. Is this is raw numbers or controlled for proportionality? I mean...

Reply to Algernon Moncrieff (Original post)

Mon Jul 11, 2016, 03:03 PM

Jul 2016

if police have "run ins" with whites and blacks equally, even though blacks represent 10-12% of the population, then they are profiling. The fact that legality of said encounters is either on par or slightly lower for blacks versus whites isn't reassuring when they are already singled out by law enforcement at a much greater rate to begin with.

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Mother Jones: New Study Suggests Police Shoot Whites More Frequently Than Blacks [View all] Algernon Moncrieff Jul 2016 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Mass Jul 2016 #1

Get a clue. What bs. Think porportionally. Shootings of black people are a much higher percentage brush Jul 2016 #2

The study is problematic because of the sample Mass Jul 2016 #3

ANOTHER FAUX news meme repeated on DU without context. PROPORTIONALITY !!!! My goodness and uponit7771 Jul 2016 #4

A FAUX news meme from Mother Jones? Algernon Moncrieff Jul 2016 #14

I had read that it was native Americans who were killed at the highest rate. SkeleTim1968 Jul 2016 #5

I've read much the same thing about Native Americans Algernon Moncrieff Jul 2016 #15

Figures lie and liars figure. merrily Jul 2016 #6

Don't know the credibility of this study/chart, but poor people, regardless of color, are shot more. tonyt53 Jul 2016 #7

See Post 15, my reply to Post 5 Algernon Moncrieff Jul 2016 #16

Is this is raw numbers or controlled for proportionality? I mean... Humanist_Activist Jul 2016 #8

Of course they do, statistically there are more of us. Rex Jul 2016 #9

See Post 15, my reply to Post 5 Algernon Moncrieff Jul 2016 #17

Here is another set of data showing the opposite... Good work by Vox showing the limitations of this Mass Jul 2016 #10

See Post 15, my reply to Post 5 Algernon Moncrieff Jul 2016 #20

Yes, but too many people do not get statistics, so it is easy to make them say something they do not Mass Jul 2016 #22

This is one of those "didn't read the article" responses REP Jul 2016 #11

General NYC Stop and Frisk data (2015) BumRushDaShow Jul 2016 #12

See Post 15, my reply to Post 5 Algernon Moncrieff Jul 2016 #18

Yet with some of these types of reports BumRushDaShow Jul 2016 #21

Prof. Fryer needs to stick to economics ... GeorgeGist Jul 2016 #13

To a degree I think everyone cherry-picks data Algernon Moncrieff Jul 2016 #19

Movies. These cops are subconsciously triggered by racist movies. raging moderate Sep 2020 #23