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(36,221 posts)What are the statistical averages.
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)That's why what you need to look at are the PER CAPITA numbers.
bigtree
(85,996 posts) The Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that between 2003 and 2009 there were more than 2,900 arrest-related deaths involving law enforcement. Averaged over seven years, that's about 420 deaths a year. While BJS does not provide the annual number of arrest-related deaths by race or ethnicity, a rough calculation based on its data shows that black people were about four times as likely to die in custody or while being arrested than whites.
The CDC's cause-of-death data, based on death certificates collected at the state level, also reveals a profound racial disparity among the victims of police shootings. Between 1968 and 2011, black people were between two to eight times more likely to die at the hands of law enforcement than whites. Annually, over those 40 years, a black person was on average 4.2 times as likely to get shot and killed by a cop than a white person. The disparity dropped to 2-to-1 between 2003 and 2009, lower than the 4-to-1 disparity shown in the BJS data over those same years. The CDC's database of emergency room records also shows similar racial disparities among those injured by police.
However, these numbers provide an extremely limited view of the lethal use of force by law enforcement. For reasons that have been outlined by USA Today, Vox, FiveThirtyEight, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and others, the FBI data is pretty unreliable and represents a conservative estimate. Some 18,000 agencies contribute to the FBI's broader crime reporting program, but only about 750 reported their justifiable homicide figures in 2012. New York state, for example, does not report justifiable homicides to the FBI, according to bureau spokesman Stephen G. Fischer Jr.
HuffPo:
Young black males in recent years were at a far greater risk of being shot dead by police than their white counterparts 21 times greater i, according to a ProPublica analysis of federally collected data on fatal police shootings.
The 1,217 deadly police shootings from 2010 to 2012 captured in the federal data show that blacks, age 15 to 19, were killed at a rate of 31.i7 per million, while just 1.47 per million white males in that age range died at the hands of police.
The finding that young black men are 21 times as likely as their white peers to be killed by police is drawn from reports filed for the years 2010 to 2012, the three most recent years for which FBI numbers are available.
Pro Publica
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Dafuq?
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)It's hard not to notice how pervasive it is here. The feigned ignorance and mocking.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)demmiblue
(36,858 posts)That certainly explains your (dumbass & ill-informed) op and the motivation behind it.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)What the fuck is this meaningless and racially divisive drivel doing in GD?
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)Ain't nobody safe when you meet a cranky or roided cop
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Bigtree's post says it all.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)Vinca
(50,273 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Death In Custody Reporting Act of 2013, Signed by the President on Dec 18, 2014.
"Over the weekend, tens of thousands of marchers rallied against police brutality, standing in solidarity with families who have lost loved ones to police violence. With public scrutiny zeroed in on deaths at the hands of law enforcement, one thing is noticeably missing: a federal record of just how many people die in police custody each year.
This, however, could be changing. Last week, Congress passed the Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2013. Currently awaiting Obama's signature, it mandates that states receiving federal criminal justice assistance grants report, by gender and race, all deaths that occur in law enforcement custody, including any while a person is being detained or arrested. This would include events like the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, says Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a sponsor of the bill, in an interview with Mother Jones.
The bill also mandates that federal law enforcement agencies annually gather and report these deaths to the US attorney general, who in turn has two years to analyze the data, determine if and how it can be used to reduce the number of such deaths, and file a report to Congress."
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/death-custody-reporting-act-police-shootings-ferguson-garner
Legislative details here:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr1447
Vinca
(50,273 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)True fact.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)Will someone not think about the white people?!?!?!?
cali
(114,904 posts)reality of police targeting black people.
White people are something like 70% of the population.
Your post reads like an attempt to minimize- an ugly distraction.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)Very diplomatic.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)True facts.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)And incorrect as many have pointed out.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)It's possible you were fooled by the article, in which case it would be awesome if you removed this crap from GD.
You've been punked!
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)You should self-delete your post. It is simply incorrect and based on no knowledge of statistics or demographics.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Statements of the form "More white people are _____ than any other group" are often likely to be true, for the trivial reason that there are more white people.
It's the RATE that matters.
For example, most auto accidents occur within 20 miles of your home.
That doesn't mean you are safer in your car when you are far away. You may actually be a lot less safe, because you are in an unfamiliar area, and more likely to make a mistake and get into an accident.
The thing is, you do most of your DRIVING within 20 miles of your home, and that skews the lower probability of actually having an accident to result in a higher raw number of accidents within that 20 miles.
It's like the guy who found out that statistic, and then moved 30 miles away to be safe. It just doesn't work that way.
libodem
(19,288 posts)They seem to have a Mormon Superiority Authoritarian Complex. They have vicious white cop on white civilian crime stats.
That shouldn't undermine the crucial problem of white cops indiscriminately shooting black men in the back. Who wouldn't effing run from the tazering motherfuckers?
heaven05
(18,124 posts)there's more of them, still. Percentages, percentages, percentages......all that matters. Also give me figures on unarmed people (white) versus unarmed people(black) being shot by police. How about some 'facts' on that? I'll be looking it up also, by the way.