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And since there are about 8% members of ethnic minorities in the population, if that corresponded to "non-whites" the risk of being a victim if non-white would be about 6 times the risk if white. Martin Alan Truelove wrote: > Statements regarding racial crime in England & Wales in recently > distributed election material are clearly correct (even though collection > of such statistics by the Govt. appears to have stopped in 2000) > (a) Roughly twice as many racial crimes are inflicted on whites as on non- > whites. (See figures for 1995 and 1999 > http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs/s95race00.pdf > (click on Ch 8; bottom left of page) > > The 1995 figures (victim assessing race of perpetrator) show that 143,000 > crimes were committed by whites, and 238,000 by non-whites. Assuming for > the moment that one person commits one crime in this dataset, this means > that 0.27% of whites committed such a crime, and 7.3% of non-whites. > > I would be interested in comments; but the Govt and BBC should give over > from implying (even in weasel word terms) that the above is not correct. > One can understand the Govt. suppressing the collection of statistics for > political reasons, as befits a 3rd-world shambles like the UK. (This would > never be permitted by the scientific community in the US, for example). > But the BBC should be ashamed of itself - as also the British press that > routinely ignores non-white crime. E.g. the murder of the Manchester > soldier 22-year-old Lee Martin beaten to death by anti-white (presumably > Muslim) racist thugs according to, & mentioned solely in, a small article > on p.3 Manchester Evening News, April 7. (Not even to be found in its > archives) > It is a responsibility of the Statistical community to make sure that > vital information of this kind, which clearly could have a direct effect > on forthcoming elections, is not concealed or fudged. > Alan Truelove 3444 Surrey Ln Falls Church Va 22042 & Canterbury. 571-242- > 0153(US). > > ****************************************************** > Please note that if you press the 'Reply' button your > message will go only to the sender of this message. > If you want to reply to the whole list, use your mailer's > 'Reply-to-All' button to send your message automatically > to [log in to unmask] > ******************************************************* -- *************************************************** J. Martin Bland Prof. of Health Statistics Dept. of Health Sciences Seebohm Rowntree Building Area 2 University of York Heslington York YO10 5DD Email: [log in to unmask] Phone: 01904 321334 Fax: 01904 321382 Web site: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~mb55/ *************************************************** ****************************************************** Please note that if you press the 'Reply' button your message will go only to the sender of this message. If you want to reply to the whole list, use your mailer's 'Reply-to-All' button to send your message automatically to [log in to unmask] *******************************************************