Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
No - I read the whole article. The para Eric quoted above is one of three interlinked comments on deaths:

Black people are twice as likely as white to die in police custody - that is based on population not arrests!

Of people arrested white people are 25% more likely to die in police custody than black people.

Black people are twice as likely as white to die in police custody after the use of (police) force.

None of those statements are contradictory - and as I agreed above there may be a number of other factors that play into them other than simple ethnicity. I agree that once arrested black people are not more likely to die in the hands of the police (unlike in the USA) but they are much more likely to be arrested, stopped and searched, and given harsher sentences (at least that was what I took from the data quoted in the Secret Barrister's book). It may be that economic factors, health problems, substance dependency, postcode and other factors also influence the outcomes - but none of those are independent of race and ethnicity either.
Fair, I misunderstood your comment.

The situation regarding arrests, stop and search etc is one I agree with, and it's a wider conversation that needs to be had rather than people like Sludge trying to take the US policing issue and apply it here despite zero data supporting his claims.