KING: White men have killed 7 of 8 cops in U.S. this year (opens in new tab)

(nydailynews.com)

1 pointshonua10y ago5 comments

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JoeAltmaier10y ago· 2 in thread

With a demographic of 14% of US males being black, that's almost exactly what you'd predict the stats would be. Still, the argument that media reporting is biased is still concerning.

dragonwriter10y ago

> With a demographic of 14% of US males being black, that's almost exactly what you'd predict the stats would be.

Well, "White" and "Not black" aren't the same thing. If killing cops was unrelated to race, you'd expect 75% of the acts to be by whites (US is 75% white), which is 6 in 8.

JoeAltmaier10y ago

That's another troublesome point. Our distinctions are related to old Jim Crow notions that 1/64th Black made you Not White. Why not the other way around? If 1/64th White made you Not Black, then the USA would be about 99% white.

So I'm not sure what these stats even mean. At bottom, its a broken idea that a killer is White or Black; it largely depends upon who's doing the reporting.

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