Are white junkies, Mexicans or Asians really murdered and brutalized by the police at similar rates as blacks? Genuine question...

When comparing violent crime arrests to deaths by police, there doesn't seem to be any appreciable difference between white and black death rates.

are you saying controlled for the proportions of violent crime arrests*, divided by the deaths by police, the resulting fractions are similar?

if so doesnt that make sense in a population who's over-policed and profiled being compared to one that isnt?

cops find maybe 10% of criminals, its about where they look. to simplify it.

This post was edited by thesnipa on Apr 29 2021 07:01am

good one. you almost had me there.

This post was edited by cambovenzi on Apr 29 2021 06:49am

https://news.yahoo.com/first-juror-speak-chauvin-trial-145029791.html

looks like we had a reverse “12 angry” men jury situation here. one juror wanted to be sure they strongly considered each charge, and all 11 other jurors thought it was a waste of time to do so

im not making a case for or against overpolicing of the black community in that post, although im sure we all know my stance, im just speaking to the stats. those two factors dont really answer blacks question that well.

Such an infantile assumption.

Go live in South side of Chicago and tell me if the rates are the same.

i have a major in CJ and a minor in stats with all of my undergrad work in Criminal statistics.

who the fuck are you talking to?

or just read better, im not saying the rates are the same, idiot.

problem is that cops can overpolice a certain neighborhood for two different reasons which are really hard to disentangle: bias against the residents of the area, and the area being a genuine crime hotspot.


it's like... yeah, no shit, cops will look more closely in the ghettos than in a posh suburb with accurately cut lawns.





From the top of my head, the most sensible approach would be the following: set up a regression model which predicts the number of violent crime arrests in a place based on socio-demographic variables like education level, income, urban vs rural and so on. Train this model with data from countries with a more homogeneous population and/or less history of racial discrimination than the U.S. to get an estimate which is as free from racial and classist bias as possible. Then use this model to predict the number of violent crime arrests we would ordinarly expect in certain places in America and compare this baseline against the actual number and quality of reported crime. If necessary, we can add a global multiplier to account for the "arrest-happiness" of various countries' respective police force... The disparity should give us a crude estimate about the magnitude of bias in U.S. policing.