marimbamaestoso:can someone PLEASE help me disprove these two screen caps - I’ve seen them a

marimbamaestoso: can someone PLEASE help me disprove these two screen caps - I’ve seen them all over facebook and (besides the fact that they came from bill o reilly’s bullshit factory) i know something is fishy here. i want my brother - a soon-to-be cop - to KNOW that this shit is fucked up instead of sharing it Now, I can’t disprove these facts, because what he reported is technically true, however he did choose to only report SOME of the facts. The ones he omitted are quite telling, if I do say so myself. In 2013, Blacks committed 5375 murders. In 2013, whites committed 4,396 murders. Using the same source used by O'Reilly, the numbers are correct. However, checking on the FBI’s definition of “murder”, it states that The classification of this offense is based solely on police investigation as opposed to the determination of a court, medical examiner, coroner, jury, or other judicial body. which means that these are not all convictions, so using the term “committed” is misleading and inaccurate. The proper terminology to be used should be “investigated for”.  Whites are 63% of the population, Blacks are 13% According to Table 1 of “The Black Alone Population in the United States: 2012” from the United State Census, the Black population is 12.85%. Whites are 63.19%. However, according to Table 29 of “The Black Alone or in Combination Population in the United States: 2012”, which includes persons who are multi-racial as well, the Black population, including multi-racial Blacks, are 13.84% of the population.  Police killings of Blacks down 70% in the last 50 years. Again, using the same reference as the O'Reilly factor, “The rate of police killings of African Americans has fallen by 70 percent over the last 40-50 years…” However, in that SAME VERY SENTENCE, it continues, “but their risk remains much higher than that of Whites, Latinos, and Asians.” There’s even some nice little infographics to show just how much higher that risk is.  How convenient of them to miss the rest of the facts in the same exact article they referenced. Cute. Especially this one:  While younger African Americans were the victims in 1 in 4 killings by police in the 1968-74 period and 1 in 7 in 1975-84, today, that proportion is 1 in 10. Let me repeat that: “today, that proportion is 1 in 10.” That’s 10%. Let’s use this article again to tie into one of the earlier points O'Reilly mentioned. African Americans, 13 percent of the population, are victims in 26 percent of police shootings. Law enforcement kills African Americans at 2.8 times the rate of white non-Latinos, and 4.3 times the rate of Asians. Deaths from police killings in 2012 Going to the CDC’s website, it was hard to locate published data on 2012 fatalities. Using their search engine, and searching “legal interventions” and “firearm” for 2012, you will get the same numbers as reported on his show. What he didn’t discuss, however, is that “Whites” includes both White and Hispanic people, not Whites alone. And, actually, I found this PolitiFact article regarding these very numbers and why they’re skeptical, so you don’t have to take my word on it. Don’t feel like reading it? Here’s the main message  He referenced recent federal numbers but failed to mention their well-documented flaws. We have not found any experts who will vouch for numbers that purport to represent annual fatal shootings by police, as there are gaping holes within each dataset. … O’Reilly’s statement contains an element of truth, but it’s not the full picture he makes it out to be. We rate the claim Mostly False. Hope this helped! -- source link

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