well, that wasn't my argument. we were discussing it in the abstract. i'm quite aware of these stats.
At 12:09 PM 5/7/2006, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>Racially motivated selective law enforcement in the USA is such that
>even in hate crime statistics Blacks become disproportionately
>represented as _offenders_: "Law enforcement agencies identified 7,145
>known offenders in 7,649 bias-motivated incidents. (See Table 1.) Of
>the known offenders, 60.6 percent were white and 19.7 percent were
>black. Groups made up of individuals of various races (multiple races,
>group) accounted for 5.1 percent of known offenders. Persons whom law
>enforcement identified as Asian or Pacific Islanders made up 1.0
>percent, and American Indian or Alaskan Natives comprised 0.7 percent
>of known offenders. Nearly 13 percent (12.9) of known offenders were
>of an unknown race. (Based on Table 9.)"
>(<http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2004/section1.htm>). Those -- including
>Blacks -- who think that hate crime legislations are in Black
>interests are probably mistaken.
>
>--
>Yoshie
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