>>936157146People need to learn what a statistic is saying before reading it.
That statistic is saying, out of the # of murders, non-negligent manslaughters, that a percentage of THAT number is made up of a racial group.
I say this because people will look at this and compare percentages; "Look, 30% of the population committed 60% of the crimes!"
Not quite. 21% of the population of NYC is black, that's 1,734,000 people.
So what does that 60% represent?
It's 60% of the TOTAL MURDERS AND NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTERS.
That means, out of 386, 60% were black people.
Doesn't seem so big does it?
Out of 386 people murdered or manslaughtered, 231 were black suspects.
231 out of 1.7 million people.
.0001% of the population. You're more likely to get hit by a lightning strike directly.