.... and 3,264 were not black
Sadly, this a police brutality issue is as much as it's a racial issue. In the Justice Bureau's own statistics, there were over 4,800 arrest related deaths in a six year period analyzed from 2003-2009. In that study 42% were white, 32% were black, 20% were hispanic and 6% other.
https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=2228
The numbers don't lie that black men are disproportionately affected in terms of their global population percentage. Unfortunately, black men also disproportionately commit crimes at a higher rate than other races with 1/3 of black men having a felony record compared to 8% of the general population as of 2010. Some of this could be related to a skewed justice system but the underlying activity is still much higher as a group for blacks.
https://www.sentencingproject.org/news/5593/
If you took a cross-section of 1,000,000 random americans, roughly 87% (870,000) would be white and other non-black races, and 13% (130,000) would be black,
Now if we applied the criminal activity percentages to this group we would have the following:
870,000 x 8% white males/non-black felonies - 69,600 would have been arrested for felony activity
130,000 x 33% of black males with felonies - 42,900 would have been arrested for felony activity
So out of our original 1,000,000 Americans pool 112,500 would be arrested for felony activity
within that 112,500 group - blacks make up 38% of the arrested group with whites and non-whites making up the other 62%
In the study cited above regarding arrest related deaths, Blacks made up 32% of the deaths with other races making up 68% deaths. So relative to the arrest percentages, blacks being killed during an arrest are actually slightly less than other groups.
This is a long way of saying, this is much more a police brutality crisis than a racial crisis. It's also more of a criminal activity crisis and it's root causes on the black community. I don't have an easy answer to the problem other than rioting is not it. Most legitimate protest don't begin late at night and groups encouraging such activity are only adding to the racial divide.
Let's come together as nation, and address our police brutality issue while still supporting our peace officers who do things the right way.
Sadly, this a police brutality issue is as much as it's a racial issue. In the Justice Bureau's own statistics, there were over 4,800 arrest related deaths in a six year period analyzed from 2003-2009. In that study 42% were white, 32% were black, 20% were hispanic and 6% other.
https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=2228
The numbers don't lie that black men are disproportionately affected in terms of their global population percentage. Unfortunately, black men also disproportionately commit crimes at a higher rate than other races with 1/3 of black men having a felony record compared to 8% of the general population as of 2010. Some of this could be related to a skewed justice system but the underlying activity is still much higher as a group for blacks.
https://www.sentencingproject.org/news/5593/
If you took a cross-section of 1,000,000 random americans, roughly 87% (870,000) would be white and other non-black races, and 13% (130,000) would be black,
Now if we applied the criminal activity percentages to this group we would have the following:
870,000 x 8% white males/non-black felonies - 69,600 would have been arrested for felony activity
130,000 x 33% of black males with felonies - 42,900 would have been arrested for felony activity
So out of our original 1,000,000 Americans pool 112,500 would be arrested for felony activity
within that 112,500 group - blacks make up 38% of the arrested group with whites and non-whites making up the other 62%
In the study cited above regarding arrest related deaths, Blacks made up 32% of the deaths with other races making up 68% deaths. So relative to the arrest percentages, blacks being killed during an arrest are actually slightly less than other groups.
This is a long way of saying, this is much more a police brutality crisis than a racial crisis. It's also more of a criminal activity crisis and it's root causes on the black community. I don't have an easy answer to the problem other than rioting is not it. Most legitimate protest don't begin late at night and groups encouraging such activity are only adding to the racial divide.
Let's come together as nation, and address our police brutality issue while still supporting our peace officers who do things the right way.
