Black Americans are killed at a much higher rate than White Americans
"Although half of the people shot and killed by police are White, Black Americans are shot at a disproportionate rate. They account for less than 13 percent of the U.S. population, but are killed by police at more than twice the rate of White Americans. Hispanic Americans are also killed by police at a disproportionate rate."
Is that not a fact?
Yes it is.
But I sense and hope that you recognize that that's a patently inadequate use of statistics. It's often a disingenuous way those who want to forment discord present information.
Let me use an example to explain:
So 80% of players currently in the NBA are black. Again like you very well know, black people are only 13% of the population of the U.S.
Now, suppose someone wanted to determine if blacks are being discriminated against by refs during NBA games and then they throw out the stat that 81% of all fouls in the NBA are called against someone black even though blacks represent only 13% of the American population This would clearly be an excessive sign of discrimination against Blacks who are only 13% of the population, yet getting called for fouls 81% of the time...
In this example it's obvious to anyone what the error is; the populations being sampled is different From the base population being used for determining discrimination. Blacks being 13% of the US population is irrelevant if 80% of the players who could be called for a foul are black.
Those who often peddle the stat you just used are, knowingly or not, exhibiting the same error as the above. I.e. comparing the results of different populations. A) population of blacks in NBA vs B) population of blacks in the U.S
In your example, The population you are looking for are black interactions with cops vs White interactions with cops.
As a % of interactions with cops, more with whites get shot than blacks. 4 of every 100000 for whites vs 3 of every 100000 interactions for blacks. Again the relevant population here is the population that interacts with the police not the population percentages of the different groups in the country at large .
As
@RabidCity has pointed out, about 50% of all murders victims ( and their perpetrators) in America are black yearly. Now would you conclude that there is discrimination against black people if 50% of those arrested for killing others were black? Would you say, well black people self discriminatory as they are only 13% of the population but yet 50% if those killed by homicides?
No one would do that, yet that's what those stats are purposely presenting.
Again, I implore you, examine the facts, review the peer reviewed studies on the topic, and draw your own conclusions.
The facts simply has never bore out the claims often being peddled.
