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Originally Posted by kronas
i do the majorty of the people in the uk are white am i right ?
so if there are crimes being commited by a black person i believe people will notice it more because of there black skin
anyway back to my point i dont believe there is a big problem in the black community with crime yes there are gangs of black youths etc in various areas of the uk but the same goes for white people as well
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Statistics aren't reported by absolute numbers, they're reported 'per 10,000 population', so you get a balanced picture. I'm having trouble with the ONS website search engine at the mo', so far the best I can link to is school exclusions by ethnic group, here:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBas...ank=1&Rank=144
from this you can see that in school year 2000-2001, for every 10,000 white kids at a UK school, 13 of them got expelled, but in a sample of the
same size of black Carribbean kids, 38 of them got expelled.
So, it is a fact to say that 'proportionately, more black kids get expelled than white kids'.
In the same way, I believe it is a fact to say that proportionately more black people commit crime than white people, altho I've not hit the right page on the ONS site yet ...
Of course, in absolute terms the number of white people in prison is higher than the number of black people, because the population of the UK is about 92% white. But this figure on its own masks the problem. The
is a bigger problem among certain ethnic minority groups (not all; note in the school exclusion figures that the rate is lower for asians than for whites). To try to gloss over the problem effectively bars us from finding a solution.