Stats are tricky. I can forgive a serving officer not understanding the stats, and falling victim to a cognitive bias.
But you have the benefits of understanding stats, and knowing about bias. You don't have any excuse for making such mistakes.
By the way, I don't need an excuse for having an opinion.
You seem to presume that are you holding the moral high ground allowing you to attack me (insinuating I am plain stupid) without even needing to deliver any facts that prove me wrong.
You can see whatever pattern or proof you want if you look at the numbers long enough, to serve any narrative, to rationalize any opinon.
> You can see whatever pattern or proof you want if you look at the numbers long enough, to serve any narrative, to rationalize any opinon.
In most Western countries the governments release stats about crimes committed by type and by citizenship or in case of the US by race.
I don't have to search for a pattern there that fits a "narrative", the statistics bluntly state which race commits most crimes in different categories.
If you don't like what these government stats show please feel free to share with us why you believe that we shouldn't use these stats. But I'm not interested in trading insults, so please keep the discussion civil and based on facts.
Sorry, when you said ...
> > Just look at these statistics
... I thought you weren't giving an opinion, but basing your argument in facts.