Anytime i bring up crime statistics in an argument with a black person , they always ALWAYS behave as if they don't know what PER CAPITA means .
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There was some debate, years ago, with Lauren Chen (IIRC) and some others. One of the topics of discussion was rape statistics. Lauren was arguing that white men in the US aren't more likely to rape than men of other races.
Someone "fact checks" her to state that something like "52% of all rape is committed by white men" -- to cheers of the numerically illiterate audience.
You can't debate these idiots because they don't know what they don't know.
Related to that, I remember some schmuck on the subreddit for my city posting his personal grad school thesis about false arrest rates in response to the typical 52% quip as was common at the time. Black people in the lead at about 40%. I asked if this was representative of the entire population of wrongful arrests or if it was the percentage of arrests of those races that were wrongfully arrested and he said it was based on the total population of wrongfully arrested. Since the sample of that population should conceivably be the same distribution of the total population of those arrested, the fact that black people came in at a smaller percentage than the total of those arrested meant that their arrest was more likely to stick than that of whites who had a higher percentage in the wrongfully arrested bracket. And this was a grad school thesis that was defended successfully, specifically about "racism in the justice system".