> An African American is much more likely to be a murderer than a white American
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It is true that a black man is more likely to be prosecuted for murder but that’s a wholly different statistic.
[citation needed]
It is true that a black man is more likely to be prosecuted for murder but that’s a wholly different statistic.
In a given year, there are about as many black bodies as white bodies, while the population ratio is 1 : 6.
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-29/race-and-hom...
> Of the 13,455 cases from last year in which the FBI listed a victim's racial information, 7,039 victims – or 52.3 percent – were black. That compares with 5,854 cases – or 43.5 percent – in which the victim was white, an increase of about 8 percent from last year.
> It's a disparity that becomes more pronounced in the context of population, as 2015 Census estimates suggest that whites account for 77.1 percent of the overall U.S. population of roughly 321 million, while blacks comprise 13.3 percent.
EDIT: In fact it is higher at least in the UK
> In 2011, males accounted for the vast majority of prosecutions for sexual offences (98.2 per cent).
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...