Rex Kerr
1 min readSep 1, 2022

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Good points as always!

But I also check numbers as always and you don't need to fix this, but the table you looked at was for arrests and not for murders committed. This means the number is lower than it should be because of the systemic under-investigation of crime in predominantly black communities (and probably some unwillingness to work with police, too). The numbers of reports are here: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-3.xls

This suggests--if the "unknown" category is evenly distributed over races--that the actual number of murders is probably around twice that (though if the murders aren't solved, it's hard to know for sure).

But twice a tiny tiny fraction is still a tiny tiny fraction. It doesn't change your conclusion at all. I just like accuracy. (Also, people live more than one year...so the number of murderers is considerably higher than the number-of-new-murders-per-year. Still a tiny fraction, conclusion still doesn't change.)

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

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One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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