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[blackhawks]

You don't seem to be able to grasp the distinction between absolute numbers and 'rate'.


Northeastern professor Matt Miller says that Trump’s response was a “grotesque” misdirection that fails to account for the fact that Black people are killed by police at a higher rate than white people. A recent study by Miller found that Black people are shot and killed by police at twice the rate that white people are.


https://mg.co.za/article/2016-09-02-why-crime-rates-are-more-useful-than-absolute-numbers-in-tracking-changes-over-time/

Crime rates are more useful than absolute numbers for comparing changes over time, as they allow you to make fair comparisons between different population sizes.

This is because – generally – the number of crimes committed will increase as a population grows. The crime rate allows us to see whether crimes have increased or decreased in relation to the size of the population.