Comment on Aboriginal community shaken by second death in Australian police custody

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Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Cross-posting my rebuttal of this misleading stat:


It’s not just that.

Aboriginal people died at a rate of 0.13 per 100 prisoners, compared to a death rate of 0.21 per 100 prisoners for the total prison population.

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The same AIC report calculated that Indigenous people as a whole died in police custody at more than six times the rate of non-Indigenous people as a whole – 0.61 per 100,000 people, compared to 0.09 per 100,000 people.

As a prison population, they don’t die at a higher rate. As a whole peoples they do.

theguardian.com/…/the-facts-about-australias-risi…

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