@gAlienLifeform to News • 1 year agoThe NYPD has stopped tens of thousands of people under Mayor Adams. Just 5% were white.gothamist.comexternal-linkmessage-square74arrow-up1558arrow-down130cross-posted to: thepoliceproblem
arrow-up1528arrow-down1external-linkThe NYPD has stopped tens of thousands of people under Mayor Adams. Just 5% were white.gothamist.com@gAlienLifeform to News • 1 year agomessage-square74cross-posted to: thepoliceproblem
minus-squareThrowawaylinkfedilink-13•1 year agoSo math time. NYC has a 41% white demographic. If all 5% white people stopped were legit stops, my calculator says only 12.19% of the stops were legitimate.
minus-square@Thoth19link9•1 year agoThis doesn’t seem like a bestness of fit test. What type of statistical test did you run?
minus-square@afraid_of_zombieslink2•1 year agoAre you factoring in the commuter population and tourists and students and long Islanders there to get drunk on Friday night?
minus-square@randon31415link1•1 year agoSo only 7.56% of all police stops of non-white people were legit? (10.05+x0.95=.1219, x=0.0756)
So math time. NYC has a 41% white demographic.
If all 5% white people stopped were legit stops, my calculator says only 12.19% of the stops were legitimate.
Oh boy amateur racial crime stats
Yes.
This doesn’t seem like a bestness of fit test. What type of statistical test did you run?
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Are you factoring in the commuter population and tourists and students and long Islanders there to get drunk on Friday night?
So only 7.56% of all police stops of non-white people were legit? (10.05+x0.95=.1219, x=0.0756)