On: Chicago Police Dept. Plagued by Systemic Racism, T...

[hnamazon123]

This is racism iff in fact blacks in Chicago don't disproportionally commit the type of crimes/infractions that they are arrested for.

[jbondeson → hnamazon123]

"Black people were targeted in 72 percent of thousands of investigative street stops that did not lead to arrests during a recent summer."

If that's not racial profiling, I don't know what is.

[cb18 → jbondeson]

What is the percentage breakdown by race in the arrests that these sweeps produced?

What is the breakdown by race of the perpetrators of the crimes that these sweeps are aimed at?

If blacks are the arrestees in greater than 72% of these sweeps that result in arrests, would you say that blacks are being under-profiled?

[hackuser → cb18]

Lots of hypotheticals, but how about something real? What if the sun doesn't rise tomorrow?

[cb18 → hackuser]

What are you talking about 'hypotheticals'?

I'm asking that data be consulted to test whether the assumptions and assertions being made are accurate.

As to the rest of your comment, they're words, grammatically correct. But they make zero sense, both in context of this discussion, and in the sequence you've presented them.

The "sun rising" isn't real, it's an artifact of the rotation of the earth.

And the 'what if' of it not occurring isn't 'real' because all historical evidence shows that your hypothetical of the sun 'not rising' on April 14, 2016 has virtually zero chance of occurring.

[lern_too_spel → cb18]

That's not how statistics works. If 1% of blacks and 1% of non-blacks should be arrested (both rates equal) and 72% of stops are for blacks, then 72% of arrests will be for blacks.