Originally posted by King Kandy
Yeah, if they have such a large "unknown" category as to render the thing statistically meaningless, then they shouldn't publish it.
It's just their stats. That's the information they got. Why in the world would they not state them? And like I said it is hardly meaningless. It seems to me you are knee jerking into dismissing this because you fear racist undertones. I don't think that was the intention though. Granted it can be misused as that, ignorantly imo, but that doesn't mean that those statistics shouldn't be made publicly available.
I agree with Darth Jello about the severity of the crimes being an interesting points, and I also agree with whoever said it about the cause of them being a factor. But those are all things that are possible to be discussed. Those stats are a starting off point, perhaps not even the best, but a decent enough one, now they can be debated. Outright dismissing everything though and basically trying to kill any conversation on the subject seems silly.
Though no one seems to have mentioned that these stats are about homicides only. Not crime in general.