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Originally Posted by booradley
FBI — Table 43
Well, according to the FBI, blacks are the runaway leader in two major forms of crime that would bring them into armed conflict with the police: Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter (52.2% of ALL such crimes committed) and Robbery (56.4% of ALL such crimes committed).
In cases where the perpetrator is under 18, the situation is worse - 54.3% and 74.1% respectively.
Considering that blacks constitute between 12-13% of the overall U.S. population, these numbers are extraordinarily bad.
It's what led Tulsa Police Department Maj. Travis Yates ( Top Tulsa police officer: 'We're shooting African Americans about 24 percent less than we probably ought to be' | TheHill) to state: “we're shooting African-Americans about 24 percent less than we probably ought to be, based on the crimes being committed."
Don't want to write a book - you guys are smart and can get the gist.
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..and again, you'd have a point if the steady stream of remarkable examples of police brutality against black people, that has been on public display through the entirety of your life, were in any way restricted to folks committing violent crimes.