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Originally Posted by Lasereth
To clear things up, when I mention race and crime statistics I'm not talking about a black guy and a white guy walking down the street on an average day. I'm saying if you're walking down the street at 11 PM and there's a black hoodlum and a white hoodlum, I don't think it's unreasonable to assume risk with the black guy moreso than the white guy based on crime statistics alone.
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But what does this scenario have to do with anything in reality? Are you saying that if I'm walking down the street and happen to see off in the distance a thuggish looking white guy and a thuggish looking black guy in my path I should walk closer to the thuggish looking white guy? Does this happen a lot to you? Why not just avoid them both? This is why your stats are useless. You have to contrive a ridiculous situation for them to be meaningful.
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To those who believe that citing black crime statistics is unreasonable and racist/prejudice/racial profiling, what do you see in those statistics? What do they mean to you? Anything?
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The fact that you cite them in contexts where they are meaningless to support arguments that they don't actually support makes them problematic.