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Thats not how statistics work. If anything you would have to look at frequency of police custody deaths and check if this is an anomaly or a trend.
When I last looked at it, it turned out per capita non-Indigenous died more often than Indigenous
Stats from the last few years are on the dashboard we have made specifically for this:
https://www.aic.gov.au/statistics/deaths-custody-australia-quarterly
They also commit per capita significantly higher amount of crime:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-04-08/aboriginal-people-20-times-more-likely-to-commit/2602494
Which is what happened in this case as well
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-27/nt-alice-springs-coles-supermarket-death-in-custody/105344116
Many of them live out in the middle of no where are bored and out of work, surrounded by criminals and go no where in life, not much you can really do
Bonus points: Welcome to Alice Springs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MleJyK10uz0
https://youtu.be/YGz1Tiaying?t=3030
Who's down voting this? How can people dislike hard objective data?
Cos it's shit.