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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by JamesBarney on Friday June 12, 2020 @10:14AM (#23499412)
Back of the envelope calculation

I would imagine dealers are 0.1-1% of the population (say .3%) and the FBI says roughly 13% of homicides are gang related which is probably a rough proxy for the number of drug dealer related homicides.

This would put dealers as having a homicide rate approximately 40x the base rate. This seems right to me.

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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by JoeAltmaier on Friday June 12, 2020 @10:18AM (#23499443)
I wonder if 'gang related' is a conflation with 'poor'.

To be fair, have to measure folks in the same socioeconomic class and geography but not in gangs and compare?

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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by JamesBarney on Friday June 12, 2020 @10:45AM (#23499718)
I think homicide base rate for poverty is closer to 2x.
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