This falls under one of my favorite categories:

- Lies

- Damn Lies

- Statistics

So let's say that there are 90 white folk and ten black. When a white person randomly attacks someone who happens to be white... they don't show up on this graph at all. Same for black/black.

Now, ten people randomly attack someone:

- 8 white people attack other white people (not reported)

- 1 white person attacks a black person (10% chance)

- 1 black person attacks a white person (90% chance)

What gets graphed?

- zero white people attacking white people (8 not reported)

- zero black people attacking black people (none occurred)

- "1x" white people attacking black people (this is the reference scale, representing an unscaled value of 1/90 = 0.011)

- "9x" black people attacking white people (an unscaled rate of 1/10= 0.1)

And 9x sounds pretty bad! But it's just a well spun lie. All of these acts were committed at random. What you actually want to graph is how disproportionally likely one group is to attack another group, per capita. This would be 9 attacks on whites, 8 from other whites, and 1 from blacks:

- white: 8/90 = 0.0889

- black: 1/10 = 0.1

Even now you can see there's still some bias from random events! But the numbers are pretty close because there never was a "black crime" problem, just statistics: another, rather effective, tool in the propagandist's tool belt.

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