This is a very necessary thread, and would make a good sticky.
It should prove a very useful reference tool.
Stats look at the USA as a whole, and are not state-specific.
Violent crime only listed here. Other crime data will be listed over next few days.
Focus is given here solely to white & black: not as an 'us vs. them', but rather, purely from numbers. The numbers have a huge drop after these two racial groups.
And due to the CIA not listing Hispanic as a separate grouping (see here - https://www.cia.gov/library/publication ... os/us.html).
Assume I'm using 'black' as synonymous with 'African American'.
Data based on the FBI's 2015 crime statistics. Link is here for those interested - https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/20 ... s/table-43
Likelihood of occurrence is expressed as '1 in ...'.
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US population data (data sourced from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demograph ... _ethnicity)
White = 223,553,265
Black = 38,929,319
Police Arrests
White = 5,753,212
Black = 2,197,140
Whites arrested 3,556,072 times more than blacks.
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DATA PER CRIME
Murder/non-negligent manslaughter
Whites = 3908
Blacks = 4347
1 in 57204 likelihood of being murdered by a white
1 in 8955 likelihood of being murdered by a black
6.4 times more likely of being murdered by a black than a white
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Rape
Whites = 11,809
Blacks = 4,907
1 in 18931 likelihood of being raped by a white
1 in 7993 likelihood of being raped by a black
2.4 times more likely of being raped by a black than a white
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Robbery
Whites = 32,439
Blacks = 39,052
1 in 6891 likelihood of being robbed by a white
1 in 997 likelihood of being robbed by a black
6.9 times more likely of being robbed by a black than a white
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Aggravated Assault
Whites = 184,024
Blacks = 92,237
1 in 1215 likelihood of being assaulted by a white
1 in 422 likelihood of being assaulted by a black
2.9 times more likely to be assaulted by a black than a white
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Arson (violent crime, as opposed to property crime)
Whites = 232,180
Blacks = 140,543
1 in 963 likelihood of Arson (violent) by a white
1 in 277 likelihood of Arson (violent) by a black
Arson (violent) 3.5 times more likely by blacks than whites
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Other Assaults
White = 544,870
Black = 254,600
1 in 410 likelihood of Other Assault by a white
1 in 153 likelihood of Other Assault by a black
2.7 times more likely to experience Other Assault by a black than a white.
On average, you are 4.1 times more likely to experience a violent crime by a black than a white.
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That's it for violent crime.
And RE the Black Gangs thread - I rest my case with regards being accused of racism.
Data here for all to access/discuss.
Best,
Sonically.
Last edited by sonicallysensitive on 13 Feb 2017, 11:44 pm, edited 1 time in total.
13 Feb 2017, 10:47 pm
] trade places with people of color [or become colored] for one month, here in amuurica- then start from scratch. i'm reminded of that old mel brooks movie, "life stinks!" [where a CEO of the universe had to reduce himself to abject homelessness in a bet].
