Quote Originally Posted by trampie09 View Post
Because it was over 4 times the percentage of that groups population, I expected it to be a few percentage points higher than their percentage of the population due to a lesser standard of living on average but not by a multiple of 4, for a group that makes up about 1/8th of population to be responsible for the majority of all homicides I find shocking and I always try to look at things in context as well.
Let's talk about that context...

Living in abject poverty, poor housing, poor education, increases in gang culture, the introduction of crack cocaine in the 80s and it's longstanding impact on the black community, systemic racism that means that black people are more likely to be arrested for crimes that they didn't commit (don't forget that the statistics are for arrests not prosecutions)...

Despite knowing all of that context, you're surprised that black people were arrested for murder at a much higher proportion than the percentage of their population.

Why?