07-09-2016, 12:47 AM
(07-09-2016, 12:13 AM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: I would love to know the stats on what race is responsible for the death of cops. Kinda the reverse stat. When looking at the number of people killed by cops according to race i think looking at the number of cops killed by people according to race has a place in that conversation. Especially when you break it down into percentages of population.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/01/09/are-black-or-white-offenders-more-likely-to-kill-police/
There were 511 officers killed in felonious incidents and 540 offenders from 2004 to 2013, according to FBI reports. Among the total offenders, 52 percent were white, and 43 percent were black.
So you we could make a similarly misleading, but factually "true", claim that cops are 4-5X more likely to be shot by a minority, if we base it on population % rather than arrests or demographics.
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