Do the MSM ever send "top" reporters to cover a white being shot? Worse evem.. since Ms Carey was black, did the MSM bother the assign "top" reporters to cover her being shot to death by a swarm of federal agents in D.C.?
The FBI figures below include the majority of all police departments. The point of this reply is to point out that whites are the most likely to die while being arrested for example. The Obama-Holder U.S. Dept. Just Us and the race-grievance industry will of course exploit all shootings to the max vis-a-vis race more than any concern for the poor victim.
The FBI stats show that whites are more likely to die while being arrested and IMO there is no doubt that some of those deaths were the intention of the police.
What about the larger number of whites and Arrest-Related Deaths (ARD)? Why is that okay with Obama, the race-grievance industry, and the media? We never see coverage of questionable ARDs involving whites that's anything close to Ferguson for example.
Arrest-Related Deaths, 2003-2009 - Statistical Tables
"From 2003 through 2009, a total of 4,813 deaths were reported to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) Arrest-Related Deaths (ARD) program."
Of these, about 6 in 10 deaths (2,931) were classified as homicide by law enforcement personnel, and 4 in 10 (1,882) were attributed to other manners of death.
Table 1 Number of reported arrest-related deaths, by manner of death, 2003-2009
Manner of death | 2003-2009 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All manners | 4,813 | 627 | 673 | 689 | 721 | 745 | 629 | 729 |
Homicide by law enforcement | 2,931 | 376 | 375 | 377 | 447 | 455 | 404 | 497 |
by other persons | 27 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 4 |
Suicide | 541 | 60 | 84 | 82 | 67 | 78 | 76 | 94 |
Intoxication | 525 | 83 | 83 | 90 | 76 | 89 | 54 | 50 |
Accidental injury | 272 | 53 | 41 | 47 | 39 | 35 | 28 | 29 |
Natural causes | 244 | 26 | 46 | 32 | 34 | 42 | 33 | 31 |
Unknown | 273 | 26 | 40 | 57 | 56 | 39 | 31 | 24 |
Note: Due to variation in reporting, caution should be used in comparing counts from year to year. See Methodology for information on missing data by state for each year. Counts may differ from previous publication due to additional information.
Table 5 Number of reported arrest-related deaths, by manner of death and demographic characteristics, 2003-2009
Demographic characteristics |
All manners | Homicide | Suicide | Intoxication | Accident | Natural causes | Unknown |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total | 4,813 | 2,958 | 541 | 525 | 272 | 244 | 273 |
Sex | |||||||
Male | 4,594 | 2,851 | 517 | 490 | 259 | 218 | 259 |
Female | 218 | 107 | 24 | 35 | 13 | 26 | 13 |
Unknown | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Race/Hispanic origin | |||||||
White, non-Hispanic | 2,026 | 1,233 | 327 | 178 | 95 | 110 | 83 |
Black, non-Hispanic | 1,529 | 937 | 80 | 217 | 111 | 85 | 99 |
Hispanic | 949 | 599 | 110 | 109 | 55 | 29 | 47 |
Other* | 150 | 107 | 12 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
Unknown | 159 | 82 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 16 | 38 |
Age | |||||||
17 or younger | 127 | 99 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 4 |
18-24 | 909 | 685 | 80 | 53 | 54 | 10 | 27 |
25-34 | 1,391 | 893 | 140 | 177 | 65 | 41 | 75 |
35-44 | 1,238 | 658 | 159 | 190 | 78 | 66 | 87 |
45-54 | 752 | 390 | 105 | 84 | 45 | 75 | 53 |
55 or older | 317 | 188 | 44 | 11 | 12 | 52 | 10 |
Unknown | 79 | 45 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 17 |
To me this shows that it is not a racial thing. It happens to all races. These figures however do not show those thought "murdered" by police. I have not yet located data for recent years. Why can't I find data for recent years? I do not know.. maybe the Dept of Just Us and Race-Grievance Industry don't want it known that whites are the most likely to die being arrested.
I should have pointed out in my reply #2 that the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) Arrest-Related Deaths (ARD) program gets data from multiple sources and the stats are not just the FBI.
How is there 1 “unknown” in the sex of the person category ?
Of course what should count is not their percentage in the overall population but their percentage in the pool of people doing stuff that cause the police to arrest them.