"Knock, knock"...sorry to butt in but you left the front door open and i thought I heard my name.
Your Mexican analogy backfired on you.
Using that same example, by your logic, if the American population in MEXICO, Is say...100,000 and some are arrested for violent criminal behavior to the tune of 25% of total violent crimes. Using per capita and proporional statistics you would say Americans are proportionally more violent than Mexicans because of the ratio of a relatively much smaller population size of Americans in Mexico and criminal elements identified as Americans.
But is that really true? No...it isn't true. Most of the Americans in Mexico don't commit crimes and live in peace so why would you associate the whole group with the lowest criminal elements of the group.
Of course per capita is the only thing that tells the truth. If an area is 80% white and 20% black or other minority, and whites commit more violent crimes, then it's not because whites are more violent, it's because there are more whites. Using per capita tells which races is really the most violent or more criminal. That's because you are then comparing the percentage of criminals per race.
Per capita doesn't tell the truth. And BTW the Justice Department website does not say anywhere on it that Blacks are 8 times more likely to kill than whites are. The truth is that criminal elements of all races are responsible for 100% of violent crimes and the rest of the popultion including the majority of Backs and Whites are responsible for 0.00% of violent crimes.
You really don't get anything, do you?
You can look at per capita GDP and national GDP. They tell you two different things.
According to the IMF the US is number one for GDP (nominal), China is second, Japan is third.
When it comes to GDP (Nominal) per capita, the IMF says Luxembourg is number one, Switzerland number two and Norway number three.
These tell me two different things. The first is that in the world the US has a lot of money. However the second tells me that people in Luxembourg live better than people anywhere else.
When it comes to who commits crimes, that white people commit more crimes doesn't mean much to me. It doesn't tell me anything.
When it comes to per capita it tells me which areas of society have the biggest problems. It allows me to go and look at other issues. Like black people have 25% poverty rate while white people have 7%,
More white people are in poverty than black people. Does this mean black people are better off than white people? No, it doesn't, because here PER CAPITA is the important factor.
10 million black people in poverty, 16 million white people in poverty. What does this tell you?
It tells me that 30 million black people aren't in poverty and 215 million white people aren't in poverty.
So what?
Per capita tells me how bad it is for each ethnic group.