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by guevara
2214 days ago
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The real question is "why is that?". Do blacks tend to get into more altercations with police, is it systemic racism, both? Without further investigation, this graph can bait people into jumping to misinformed conclusions. Furthermore, the site states:
> black Americans account for less than 13 percent of the population but they are shot and killed by the police at a rate that’s over twice as high as for white Americans. Yet they also account for over 50% of crimes in the U.S [0]. Like I said, ask questions, don't just look at a graph and raise pitchforks. [0]: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-... |
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Likewise with the data you've linked. Submission of data to the UCR database is completely voluntary and does not represent an accurate picture of crime in the United States:
> "The totals provided in this table reflect only those persons arrested by law enforcement agencies that provided race information to the UCR Program; therefore, the totals may not match those shown in other arrest tables for the nation." [0]
> "It is incumbent upon all data users to become as well educated as possible about how to understand and quantify the nature and extent of crime in the United States and in any of the more than 17,000 jurisdictions represented by law enforcement contributors to the UCR Program. Valid assessments are possible only with careful study and analysis of the various unique conditions affecting each local law enforcement jurisdiction." [1]
I.e., you can't expect to get any kind of meaningful analysis by dumping a table of raw, incomplete data into a thread.
[0] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
[1] https://www.ucrdatatool.gov/ranking.cfm