Roy Carr-Hill
Correction: whilst the Toronot police may refuse to acknowledge racism,
the London police now have to fall over backwards to do so (whether or
not that changes what they do is an entirely different matter).
It's bad enough having to receive this claptrap (about crime and
punishment) referring to a Canadian situation which many of us know
nothing about; it's ridiculous when the participants pontificate about
something they clearly know nothing about.
"David B. Klein" wrote:
>
> At 07:19 PM 2/7/00 -0000, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> >David wrote, in reply to Ray:
> >>
> > Surely this gives the proportion of unsolved robberies which are
> >reported by the victims to have been committed by blacks, not the proportion
> >of blacks who commit armed robberies?
>
> Yes, that's right, but it permits an estimate by comparing to their
> percentage of the population as a whole. Obviously, one could do a
> chi-square test :-)
> >
> > What's the proportion of black people in the Toronto population as a
> >multiple of the proportion in Canada as a whole?
>
> It would be very high in Toronto compared to Canada as a whole, though I
> have no national figures. In Toronto they are about 6-7% of the population,
> most of whom are of Caribbean origin, primarily Jamaican. The ideological
> climate is such that, for example, the Toronto police and London police
> can't compare notes about a problem that they cannot state exists. In
> Jamaica they acknowledge the existence of the rude boy problem and are
> really tough with them - the cops down there shoot first and ask questions
> later - and this is what my non-criminal Jamaican friends recommend we do
> here. No easy answers ...
>
> David
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