Two and a half times as likely to be killed by police doesn't seem that bad to you?
Without further investigation, this graph can bait people into jumping to misinformed conclusions.
Furthermore, the site states: > black Americans account for less than 13 percent of the population but they are shot and killed by the police at a rate that’s over twice as high as for white Americans.
Yet they also account for over 50% of crimes in the U.S [0]. Like I said, ask questions, don't just look at a graph and raise pitchforks.
[0]: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
Likewise with the data you've linked. Submission of data to the UCR database is completely voluntary and does not represent an accurate picture of crime in the United States:
> "The totals provided in this table reflect only those persons arrested by law enforcement agencies that provided race information to the UCR Program; therefore, the totals may not match those shown in other arrest tables for the nation." [0]
> "It is incumbent upon all data users to become as well educated as possible about how to understand and quantify the nature and extent of crime in the United States and in any of the more than 17,000 jurisdictions represented by law enforcement contributors to the UCR Program. Valid assessments are possible only with careful study and analysis of the various unique conditions affecting each local law enforcement jurisdiction." [1]
I.e., you can't expect to get any kind of meaningful analysis by dumping a table of raw, incomplete data into a thread.
[0] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
Can you make it more obvious?
I saw whites are ~70% of arrests, and for violent crime arrests of a juvenile, blacks are 50%, but nothing like blacks commit 50% of crimes.
This means the 'root cause' of that 2.5x multiple may necessarily be 'cops are shooting blacks at an arbitrarily greater rate', rather, cops may very well be shooting criminals in a rate somewhat commensurate with necessity given rates of altercations.
Which would imply the 'cause' is one step away, i.e. whatever is 'causing' people of different groups to commit more or less crime.
This is the very obvious and problematic issue with reporting such a statistic without context, that even smart people will be utterly misled.
There are 330M Americans, a Billion guns, an inherently aggressive population, there's a 100% chance that people are going to die in awkward situations, it doesn't mean that there's a deeply racist police force.
Case and point: in this very Minnesota incident, one of the officers was White, one Black and one Asian (!!) this is a seriously 'Multicultural' gang of dudes that will be up on charges.
The argument was made back in the 1980s that 'mostly white cops' was the 'problem' in dealing with communities that didn't look like them, but in 2020 we actually have police forces that largely represent the people they police and yet we still have a lot of problems (though fewer).
Almost every story and every bit of data is 'taken out of context' it's almost as though the whole can of worms needs to be opened each time there is serious reporting.