Quote Originally Posted by ~Rocktar~ View Post
Here is a little bit of research I did for a reply to this very same kind of inane comment on social media.

The number of interactions between police and the people in the US is incalculable. However, the number of people shot to death by police is easily obtained. In 2017 it was 457 white people and 223 black people. This makes the numbers look like they support the premise that more people result in more deaths. Now apply some basic math to the population percentages and the violent crime rates. According to the FBI, whites account for 236590 violent crimes, blacks for 141744 in 2017. Whites are 58.52% of violent crime arrests, blacks 37.5%. So, the ratio of white to black crime is 1.669 white crimes for every black crime. BUT the ratio for white to black deaths by police is 2.049 white deaths to every black death. So, 1.669 whites are arrested for every black for violent crime but 2.049 whites are killed for every black police death. The ratio of death to arrests and deaths to violent crime rate doesn’t lie.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s...ables/table-43
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...olice-by-race/

Here are the 2016 numbers of victims of murder in the US per the FBI report. Blacks are 13.4% of the US population according to Wikipedia but they account for 42.98% of the murder victims and 47.27% of the offenders. The population numbers just don't add up.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s...ta-table-3.xls
That’s all fine, I’m not disputing any of that. My reply was directly specifically at PB claim. That’s it. If you want to apply basic numbers without digging into it, it’s not right and very misleading.