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Comment author: Lumifer 05 October 2016 08:15:57PM 4 points [-]

What are the reasons?

For example, there were 4,636 murders committed by white people and 5,620 murders committed by black people in 2015 (source). On the per-capita basis this makes the by-white murder rate to be about 2.2 per 100,000 and the by-black murder rate to be about 16.2 per 100,000.

Comment author: Brillyant 05 October 2016 08:24:15PM 0 points [-]

Why is this?