Originally Posted by
Hedley
When you look at those statistics on a per capita basis it helps to explain why there are disproportionate representations of various ethnic groups who end up having confrontations with police, or who are incarcerated. During that time period, blacks made up approximately 12% of the population, while whites made up 60%. A group who only makes up 12% of the population committed twice as many murders as a group who is 5 times larger. The reason that the percentage of black people who find themselves being confronted by the police, or put into prison is higher than their representation in society isn’t because of “systemic racism”, it is because of of a higher rate of criminal behavior.
Not so fast. Your are taking one data point, murder by race, and it is a very incomplete one at that as the footnotes point out, and then conflating that with encounters, making the false assumption that police have violent encounters with black, unknown, and other raced people more often because this particular murder by race table says so. This table is murder only — it does not include police encounters.
And it cannot, because police don’t track how many people that kill, not by race, sex, age, anything. Journalists do that. Based on the Police Beat reporting, if they still have it. Additionally, your per capita comparison is off due to the known Unknown and Other categories not to mention the above referenced footnote.
To be clear: this table doesn’t say much useful at all except for maybe the Total number of murders in 2018. Too much is missing and I won’t speculate as to why.
What I can infer is that you posit that this Table says Black lives don’t matter to black people, so Black Lives Don’t Matter. That is what you appear to be saying. To be clear, BLM is about disparate treatment of Black people by the State, under the color of law. And that absolutely does happen.