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Originally Posted by filtherton
Racist people (or those who aren't necessarily that interested in statistics) see data like this and say, "See, I was right to be afraid of that black guy I saw. He was four times as likely to assault me as a white guy." Which completely ignores the fact that there are a lot of other factors that determine whether someone is going to assault you than the color of their skin.
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Do you think I'm stupid? Of course I take into account all the other factors that determine whether someone is going to assault you. I'm just as scared of a white hoodlum as a black hoodlum if they're staring at me with their hands in their pockets at 10 PM at an ATM. If you don't choose to use the data, what do you suggest about it? What does the data mean if it <I>doesn't</I> mean black people are more dangerous than white people? I'd like to hear your argument about why it's racist to know that blacks are more likely to commit crimes than whites.
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Originally Posted by mixedmedia
....because when you remove the instances of drug-related crime and black-on-black crime you will see that the risk of my being the victim of a crime perpetrated by a black man rather than any other is not much greater.
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Source? I'd love to see this information. The stats are inflated pretty bad if you're right.