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Braybrook wrote:
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> "Gary James" <cnjames@homemail.com> wrote in message
> news:39F360AD.98B55804@homemail.com...
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> | Braybrook wrote:
> | >
> | > "Gary James" <cnjames@homemail.com> wrote in message
> | > news:39F338CF.EAC947DB@homemail.com...
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> | > |
> | > | Braybrook wrote:
> | > | >
> | > | > "Gary James" <cnjames@homemail.com> wrote in message
> | > | > news:39F3237A.8D53955@homemail.com...
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> <snip>
> 
> | > | > | With all due respect, blacks committed 53.4 % of murders in US in
> 1998.
> | > | > | Being they represent about 12 % of the population I think this
> figure
> | > | > | cannot be ignored except by the more ignorant.    And those who
> prefer
> | > | > | Political Correctness to truth,   which I realize appears to be a
> small
> | > | > | amjority.   But their ranks are dwindling.
> | > | > |
> | > | > | http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004896.html
> | > | >
> | > | > That table does not  show that 53.4% of murders were committed by
> blacks
> | > in
> | > | > 1998. It shows that 53.4% of arrests (not convictions) for murder in
> 1998
> | > were
> | > | > of black suspects, it also does not quote a figure for the percentage
> of
> | > | > murders where no one was arrested.
> | > | >
> | > | > | And here is how the murders were committed in 1998.
> | > | > |
> | > | > | http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0778269.html
> | > | > |
> | > | > | GJ
> | > |
> | > |
> | > | I assume you have a theory that they were all released with the
> apologies
> | > | of the court when it was found they were all the innocent victims of
> | > | racial profiling,  and that gun in their hand was just a coincidence ?
> | > |
> | > | And you further assume that the rest of the victims had to have been
> | > | committed by the pastors of the local white Baptist churches ?
> | > |
> | > | Nice pat solution but it doesn't stand up to the reality of the subject.
> | > |
> | > | GJ
> | >
> | > No, I was just suggesting if you are going to provide a reference that you
> | > should ensure it actually reflects the point you are trying to prove. The
> fact
> | > is the data you provided in that link did not prove that 53.4% of murders
> in
> | > 1998 were committed by blacks. I would suggest you actually review the
> data in
> | > the FBI Uniform Crime Reports and restrict your comments to what is
> actually
> | > shown in those reports.
> |
> | This was the only one I could find.  I'm not usually real big on
> | statistics.  As you no doubt no,  they will usually say anything if
> | tortured enough :)  But there was no deception.  The page clearly says
> | "arrests" above the list.
> 
> But your comment as an introduction to that table was __With all due respect,
> blacks committed 53.4 % of murders in US in 1998.__ If you go to the original
> source of the data (FBI Uniform Crime Reports) you will find that arrests
> cleared only 69% of the murder cases that year, the other 31% of cases that
> year could have all been committed by other races (but no data is presented in
> the reports to draw that conclusion). Plus 1999 data is available on the same
> site http://www.fbi.gov/ucr.htm and you could have at least been current.
> 
> | Gary

OK. I'll yield to you for the time being on the stats.  Thanks for the
url.  I'll look it over.

But what if only 69% cleared ?  I would guess that most of the unsolved
would end up as gangland or hoodlum murders which brings us full circle to
the minority group with the most violent tendency.

I've enjoyed it but must go for the evening.  

Gary James