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SW-User
What exactly are we supposed to be seeing?
NoSugarCoating · 26-30, F
you Must be real dumb if you can’t already comprehend this @SW-User
SW-User
@NoSugarCoating
If you look at these numbers compared to population, you're not going to like what you see.
If you look at these numbers compared to population, you're not going to like what you see.
funtravler · 36-40, F
@NoSugarCoating You sure aren't sugar coated...LOL
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NoSugarCoating · 26-30, F
It will still be the same statistics @SW-User
SomeMichGuy · M
@NoSugarCoating
I think what @SW-User is suggesting is that, though these arrest percentages are interesting, if you looked at what percentage of each population these represent, there might be a different story.
Since "white" clearly includes Hispanics in this table, let's see, if I use your info from the FBI and est. 2015 population info [I think it was published in 2016] using the same categories (from a US Census Bureau doc, as quoted at [i]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States[/i]; see n. 64 of that webpage), then we can look at
total arrests as percentage of racial pop'n:
White
2,519,094/233,657,078 * 100%
= 1.08%
Black or AA
901,211/40,241,818 * 100%
= 2.24%
American Indian
or Alaska Native
35,099/2,597,817 * 100%
= 1.35%
Asian
38,843/16,614,625 * 100%
= 0.234%
Native Hawai'ian or
Other Pacific Islander
5,601/560,021 * 100%
= 1.00%
I think what @SW-User is suggesting is that, though these arrest percentages are interesting, if you looked at what percentage of each population these represent, there might be a different story.
Since "white" clearly includes Hispanics in this table, let's see, if I use your info from the FBI and est. 2015 population info [I think it was published in 2016] using the same categories (from a US Census Bureau doc, as quoted at [i]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States[/i]; see n. 64 of that webpage), then we can look at
total arrests as percentage of racial pop'n:
White
2,519,094/233,657,078 * 100%
= 1.08%
Black or AA
901,211/40,241,818 * 100%
= 2.24%
American Indian
or Alaska Native
35,099/2,597,817 * 100%
= 1.35%
Asian
38,843/16,614,625 * 100%
= 0.234%
Native Hawai'ian or
Other Pacific Islander
5,601/560,021 * 100%
= 1.00%