Sunday, February 04, 2007

More Evidence Debunks Racial Profiling

Blogger Buckhorn Road offers more evidence to debunk racial profiling.

Although the NY Daily News reports that the NYPD frisked blacks at 5 times rate of whites (alarming to the uninformed eye), the reality is quite different.

I admittedly don't have crime statistics for New York City broken down by race. However, I do have murder statistics for the nation as a whole from the United States government. If you look at those numbers, blacks in New York are getting off easy, since in the entire country, blacks are 7 times more likely to commit murder than whites.
His graphs and analysis suggests that it’s not racist white cops who have a problem with blacks, but blacks who have a problem with blacks.

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