What’s the disparity between men and women?

The article ought to put the disparity in context by looking at violent crime rates by race in Britain. A blog post "Variation in fatal police shootings" https://noahcarl.substack.com/p/variation-in-fatal-police-sh... shows that in the U.S., the higher rate of blacks killed by police is explained by the higher murder rate of blacks.

This article leaves out key details: it doesn't say what the distribution of the people arrested is, it only talks of how many died. What does "Assuming constant demographic profiles over the period considered, Black people are 6.4 times more likely to die..." mean? Is the assumption that the distribution of the general population is the same as those arrested? How can you assume that without actual numbers? Also, how is 6.4 times rounded to 7? Articles like this do a disservice because they're more about clickbait by inflaming the passions and dividing people than addressing what is likely a genuine problem in how black offenders are treated.

>Also, how is 6.4 times rounded to 7?

The 6.4 times more is proportional to the population of the UK. The 7 is proportional to the white population of the UK, who are .84 times as likely to die than the general population.

I understand that we can only talk bad about white people, and good about black people, but articles like this tend to ignore that because of the current political optics, police tend to only restrain black people that are extremely violent. Police essentially need unsurmountable social proof before they take action. Every other black suspect gets a free pass (see any of the daily looting videos). Meanwhile non-violent white people are restrained at a much higher rate but since they tend to comply there are fewer bad outcomes.

So to phrase it in the same terms as this article, you say given similar behaviour, black people are less likely to be restrained than white people?

I'd have to see some serious data before I believe that. My sample is tiny and I live in the whitest part of my town, but boy does that go against my experience, and what I read elsewhere.

In other words, the title is a statistical misdirection, and a deliberate one.