Skjellyfetti wrote:JohnStOnge wrote:Just one more example of why it's perfectly rational to be leery around young Black males.
Because of three attacks in Philadelphia?
No, I'm pretty sure I'm going to carry on just as I always have and I'm not going to get randomly popped walking down the street.
You probably won't. But if you're rational about it you'll realize that if what you're talking about is the risk of getting attacked by a stranger a young Black male represents far more risk than any other sex/race combination.
As I wrote back when the Travon Martin thing was going on and Obama made the Statement about Black males hearing car doors lock when they walk by: What Obama left out is that there is a reason for that response. Young Black males are generally more dangerous than other people are. When you're talking about crimes where the victim does not know the attacker they are more likely to assault you. They are more likely to rob you. So on and so forth.
I went through that on another thread a while back with "perceived race of attacker" statistics. It didn't break it down by sex. But it's clear that the proportion of attacks on Whites perpetrated by Blacks is disproportionate to the proportion of Blacks in the population.
I went ahead and Googled a table on that from 2008. It's at
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cvus ... cv0842.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. Then extent to which the percentages of attacks against Whites by Blacks exceed the percentage of Blacks in the population varies but there is only one crime listed (simple assault) where the percentage does not exceed that percentage of Blacks in the population. In some cases the differences are dramatic.
For example, for "Robbery" overall 35.6 percent of the instances of that crime against Whites were committed by Blacks and for "Attempted to Take Property With Injury" a whopping 66.7 percent of the instances of that crime against Whites was committed by Blacks. Again: Blacks are only 13 percent of the population.
I think it's fair to assume that, though sex is not indicated, the overwhelming majority of those "Robbery" and "Attempted Robbery With Injury" crimes committed by Blacks against Whites were committed by males.
So people need to drop the crap about there being no rational basis for being leery of Black males that you don't know anything about. It's a bunch of crap. It's another instance where we are told to ignore reality because reality doesn't fit the egalitarian narrative. Or rather we are told lies about what the reality is so that we don't believe it is what it is.