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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (24 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (18 children)

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:

Indigenous people are 15 to 20 times more likely to commit violent offences than non-Indigenous people according to research released today.

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

Speaking in Darwin on Tuesday afternoon, Assistant Commissioner Travis Wurst said the man, believed to be from Alice Springs, "was placing items down the front of [his] clothing" when he was confronted by security guards.

"One of the security guards was assaulted and there were two police officers, who were in plain clothes at the time, in the supermarket who rendered assistance to the security guards," he said.

"The male behaved rather aggressively and was placed onto the ground by those police officers, he was later identified as losing consciousness."

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

Who's down voting this? How can people dislike hard objective data?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

Cos it's shit.

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