The right is playing games with statistics: claiming white people in more danger of police killings.

[gollygee]

Just FYI in case you see it. You can reply to this with the following article if you want.

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/the-real-story-of-race-and-police-killings/?_r=0

In any case, the numbers are misleading. “Based on that data, Mr. Moskos reported that roughly 49 percent of those killed by officers from May 2013 to April 2015 were white, while 30 percent were black,” the Washington Times article said. “He also found that 19 percent were Hispanic.”

That may be true, but whites make up 63 percent of the population of this country. Blacks are just 12 percent. When Mr. Moskos adjusted his data to account for that, he found that black men were 3.5 times more likely to be killed by cops than white men. That’s inconvenient.

So Mr. Moskos did what other deniers of reality on this issue do: He larded into the results data on the homicide rate among African Americans, and then proclaimed that if you take that data into account, whites are at higher risk than blacks.

A fairer analysis, at ProPublica, found that black males aged 15 to 19 were 21 times more likely to be killed by police than white males in that age group. And The Washington Post reports that unarmed black men were seven times more likely to be killed by police this year than unarmed white men.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Three kinds of lies...

White lies, damn lies, and statistics. Mark Twain IIRC

We always have to be on the alert for mis-reported statistics with skewed data. It has become a growth industry, it seems.

[etherealtruth]

2. unfortunately, it is not just the "right"

[MFM008]

3. The right and repukes wouldnt know the truth

if it hit them in the face with a wrecking ball.

That includes the LEFT right.

[Rex]

4. The Right has hitched itself to the white supremacist movement and there is no turning back for

them.

[angstlessk]

5. Here are some stats fer ya!

Frightening Crime Stats Regarding Race - Blacks 700% more likely to commit murder & 800% more likely to commit robbery - NATIONALLY not just Chicago

Link: http://truenewsusa.blogspot.com/2013/04/frightening-crime-stats-regarding-race.html

So, therefore "15 to 19 were 21 times more likely to be killed by police than white males in that age group" or 2,100% more likely

and "he found that black men were 3.5 times more likely to be killed by cops than white men" or 350% more likely

and moreover "And The Washington Post reports that unarmed black men were seven times more likely to be killed by police this year than unarmed white men" or 700%

Eat them there stats, 'true'newsusa! If ya screw with the stats, you probably screw with the stats, got it?