The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

What would change this statistic?

Assuming (as I don't, really) that this is not a wild exaggeration, if all the police in America were black, how much would that change this annoyingly and suspiciously imprecise statistic?

An unarmed black person is six times more likely to be killed by police than is a white person who carries a weapon.

How far would any of the suspicious and carefully selected statistics she quotes?

Put another way, how far are these disparities accounted for by the fact that black America is a hotbed of crime and violence of every kind not involving a white collar, that black Americans are much more likely than any others to be victims of crime and also perpetrators of such crimes?

But then, why bother to ask?

All of that is ofay's fault, too, isn't it?


And is police thuggery a bigger problem for black America or Baltimore than black on black crimes, than the crimes against blacks that the police working black neighborhoods are there to prevent?

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