Here are some numbers for you. Do you see how more violent crimes means more of those people getting shot by police?
FACT: Despite making up just 13% of the population, blacks commit around half of homicides in the United States.
DOJ statistics show that between 1980 and 2008, blacks committed 52% of homicides, compared to 45% of homicides committed by whites.
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FBI statistics tell a similar story. In 2013, black criminals carried out 38% of murders, compared to 31.1% for whites, again despite the fact that there are five times more white people in the U.S.
– FACT: From 2011 to 2013, 38.5 per cent of people arrested for murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault were black. This figure is three times higher than the 13% black population figure. When you account for the fact that black males aged 15-34, who account for around 3% of the population, are responsible for the vast majority of these crimes, the figures are even more staggering.
– FACT: Despite the fact that black people commit an equal or greater number of violent crimes than whites, whites are almost TWICE as likely to be killed by police officers.
– FACT: Despite being outnumbered by whites five to one, blacks commit
eight times more crimes against whites than vice-versa, according to
FBI statistics from 2007. A black male is 40 times as likely to assault a white person as the reverse.