Now, it's my understanding that the argument against the police includes an argument that they are disproportionately targeting black Americans and other communities. If you want them to fix that, don't they need some mathematical input?
If it's not true, wouldn't it be helpful to have the myth dispelled by trained mathematicians? It's a narrative that is doing a lot of damage to our country right now. We should surely either fix it if it's true, or dispel it if it's not.
The JMC says about themselves: "We call for the integration of justice and ethics into standard mathematics curricula."
ReplyDeleteSet aside the well-known fact that they are using "justice" and "ethics" instrumentally and not honestly. Can you imagine any realistic way of doing this?
justice=\pi * ethics ^(1/3)
Here's some rather basic arithmetic, via Just the News:
ReplyDeleteTraffic accidents kill about 23 in 100,000 men ages 25-29, with a slightly higher rate for blacks relative to whites. This is at least five times higher than police killings of black men of the same age, using any method of force.
The article has some interesting categorical breakouts of that basic statistic.
The justice and ethics of that statistic are embedded in the perceptions of some of those categories, so others of those categories will need canceling.
Eric Hines
Here are the 2020 numbers. Don’t just look at race: look at the male/female disparity. Then apply that ‘disproportionate’ filter.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1384231068199387143?s=21
They obviously just want to eliminate any potential source for objective truth. That's the real target.
ReplyDeleteWhat douglas said. The questions that you ask have obvious answers, unfortunately.
ReplyDeleteIf I didn't know better, I might suspect that imaginary numbers were now working their way into bail and sentencing guidelines.
ReplyDeleteI might suspect that imaginary numbers were now working their way into bail and sentencing guidelines.
ReplyDeleteThat would fit, since the bail and sentencing guidelines are increasingly fantastical.
Eric Hines