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[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

No, they are. It's involves overlaying a few different data sets but most violent crime is committed by white men under 50.

Immigrants of any flavor have lower crime rates than natural born citizens. If you feel this is wrong, that's yoir xenophobia and racism.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

They didn't say white men under 50, they said maga white men under 50, which is an even smaller group. And they commit 80% of violent crime? You've got to back that claim up with sources because I don't believe the stat you said either. I have heard other data points that go strongly against this.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago

Actually upon further parsing, the statement cannot be true as it a end result reduction.

So while removing them also removes their ability to be victims which does help quite a bit, to get to 80% white men alone would need to commit 90% of violent crimes. Its easier to hit 70%, since only about 60% would need to be from white men but then we still need to account for maga's percentage. The raw numbers including white men of any political affiliation max out at around 60%

And statistics makes this all really hard just to describing, showing the math around it is a mess.

The statement can be made true by more carefully wording it. For example if it was demostic terrorism instead of violent crime. Which I'm going to pretend is where my confusion comes from because I've done the numbers on that one before and I recall it being around that range. I think there is something on ourworldindata for that one.

The part about children is impossible because a lot of women commit crimes against their own children.