Sealy entire case stems from one thing "Blacks are a huge problem". So anything you discuss he will go back to that simple logic. Crime? Well its different between the races because....."blacks are a huge problem". The inner city schools are failing all over the country but I bring up Detroit and Chicago because...."Blacks are a huge problem".
Black guys dont know how to act in court...because ."blacks are a huge problem".
Show him a white girl acting a fool in court....Well that doesnt count because......"blacks are a huge problem".
Kohn’s claim about 69 percent of white men runs into trouble on two counts. The figure she cited is not for white men. It’s for all whites.
And it’s not for "violent" crimes. It’s for all crimes, from loitering to murder.
It’s not simple to replicate the percentage of white men arrested for violent crimes, as we’ll show you in a bit.
But we can look at violent crimes, sorted solely by race.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, white men and women were arrested for 60 percent of all violent crimes in 2012. Violent crimes include murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault. Here’s the arrest data:
Looking solely at murders, black men are arrested more for murder than white men, and at a much higher rate when you account for population.
When we contacted Kohn, she agreed that her number was off. The percentage she used included both white men and women, and applied to all sorts of crimes, from loitering to murder. Kohn corrected that error in her opinion piece.
Accounting for population size
Setting aside using the wrong number, the larger problem with Kohn’s claim is that her data point tells only half the story.
When Kohn said that 69 percent of arrests for violent crimes were white males, she left out the population factor.
"You can't talk about risk without talking about population size," Fox told PunditFact. "There are many more whites than blacks so it makes sense that the number of crimes will be high."
Using the homicide count (again, the only crime where we can separate on both race and gender) whites and blacks were arrested in about equal numbers. But cast as a rate, the results shift. For 2013, Fox calculated that black men were about seven times more likely than white men to be arrested for murder. That would be a rate of 33 murders for every 100,000 black men, compared to 4.7 for every 100,000 whites.
Drawing on the 2012 figures, whites were arrested for over 275,000 violent crimes. For blacks, the number is about 170,000.So while whites were arrested more, the arrest rate for blacks is nearly four times that for whites.
Does that mean that from the point of view of the average citizen that blacks pose a greater threat?
Not necessarily.
"If one considers the absolute number of offenders and it turns out there are a larger number of offenders from Group A than Group B, then it stands to reason that Group A is the greater threat in terms of likelihood of criminal acts," said Lorie Fridell, a criminologist at the University of South Florida.
Robert Brame, a criminology professor at the University of South Carolina, echoed Fridell’s assessment.
"The statistical fact is that you’re more likely to be a victim of a white perpetrator than a black one just because there are so many more whites in the population," Brame said.
But, Brame, continued, it is not enough to speak of either the total number or the population-based rate.
"My preference would be for both statistics to be provided to give the full context," Brame said. "Neither statistic is complete without the other."
Our ruling
Kohn said that white men are at least as dangerous as black men and cited as proof that white men represent 69 percent of people arrested for violent crimes.
When presented with the inaccuracies in using that specific figure by PunditFact, Kohn corrected herself.
Criminologists we contacted also told us that those absolute figures -- when used correctly -- tell only half the story. When talking about risks to society, it is equally important to provide the population-based rate. When we do that, the threat of violent crimes posed by blacks looks larger than that of whites.
For these two reasons, Kohn’s claim that "white men account for 69 percent of those arrested for violent crimes" is inaccurate. We rate it False.
Sally Kohn: 'White men account for 69 percent of those arrested for violent crimes'
Even politifact says you are wrong.