Reading comprehension issues? Here it is again, maybe this time it will sink in:
According to the number from the report, and the numbers you gave it is clear that black people are affected 2.5 times more, while after the "controlled for" it becomes 10% more white people involved in violent arrests. And also, after this "controlled for" the 2.5 times suddenly become only 30%.
This can mean only thing: blacks are picked out disproportionally more, while white people obviously are more agressive and nasty, otherwise they wouldn't have the 10% lead when it comes to violent arrests.
This really should be easy to understand.
Greetings,
Chris
ETA: In fact, when the comparison is black vs. white people, it is actually 3.6 times. The 2.5 times is the overall rate, which obviously would include other non-white ethnicities:
The study is sketchy. It insinuates that higher arrest rates for minorities is due to "racism" without mentioning homicide victim stats which do not support this position. It's common for far left academics to pretend these figures don't exist. This reveals bias on the authors.
According to statistics on homicide victims, blacks are vastly over-represented. In fact, the homicide victim rate for black people is almost twice as high as the black arrest rate for crime in general (50% vs 25%). It's not likely that these dead black bodies are being falsely reported, so we have clear evidence of higher black perpetration in violent crime.
http://victimsofcrime.org/docs/default-source/ncvrw2015/2015ncvrw_stats_homicide.pdf?sfvrsn=2
If police racism was a significant factor, we'd expect to see blacks having higher arrest rates for petty and non-fatal violent crime and lower rates of homicide victimization. Instead, we see the reverse. Further, non-Hispanic white people are around 50% of arrests but comprise only 31% of murder victims and 24% of murder arrests.
The study dismisses evidence of
"They find that the rate of officer injury is lower when arresting a White suspect than a suspect of another racial group (Smith
et al., 2009). However, this finding should be taken only as
suggestive, since suspect resistance was not measured in a robust manner and a number of circumstances could have contributed to this
finding."
Actually, there's tangible evidence for this. Cop killing. Funny how the authors didn't bother to mention these stats.
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/u..._race_and_sex_of_known_offender_2004-2013.xls
Above, we find that blacks made up 43% of cop killers during the period covered, while making up only about 25% of arrests.
In fact, for 2015, I found that minorities made up 62% of cop killers. For blacks alone, it was 48% despite being only 26% of police shooting fatalities. I went through every case, and you're free to do the same if you don't believe me.
http://www.odmp.org/search/year/2015
Since this is true for cop killing, it's likely true for all types of violence toward police, which would support the study that the cited authors dismiss.
