>Given that the actual situation in the US is quite like the one described
>-- there are far more white people who never meet a black person than black
>people who never meet a white person -- I don't think that this analysis of
>conviction rates is meaningful. The statistics at a district level might
>be, though, but I suspect they may not give the politically convenient
>implication that black people are twice as violent as whites.
Excellent point as usual, Daniel. I wonder how many anti bossman killings have been reclassified as anti whitey hate crimes. Note how Mr Charley catches both connotations.
Yours, Rakesh