Talk:Shopping while black

Unreported harassment and making a purchase to prove affordability
Hi there. I was watching the documentary "What would you do?" which I believe to be the ABC documentary referred to in the article. According to that documentary, most blacks never actually report the harassment. It went on to say that some actually go ahead to make a purchase just to prove that they can afford it. Does anyone have reliable sources for this? I think these are very important points and perhaps they should be included in the article. 86.1.102.119 (talk) 20:19, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Statistically blacks ARE more likely to commit crime, per the FBI crime statistics. 107.222.205.242 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 05:46, 5 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Firstly, please provide a reference, so that others can fairly judge the value or otherwise of your contribution. Secondly, the FBIs data by definition will be biased by the very variable we are trying to control for; unfairly increased suspicion and detention of people who are black. To put it another way, I would be extremely surprised if the FBI crime statistics you are referring to can identify crimes that were committed but not caught by the authorities. 84.92.85.50 (talk) 11:00, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
 * According to the FBI stats for the year 2019, black people committed 30,2% of all larceny and theft, even though they make up just 13% of the population. Your opinion that these statistics are biased is unfounded, similar rates of black over-representation in (violent) crime exists in other Western countries, such as Canada, Australia, and Western European countries, which is also confirmed by said countries' crime statistics. One very telling and bias-free piece of evidence of black people's inherently more criminal tendencies compared to whites is the fact that it's not uncommon for items popular among and specific to the black demographic to be under lock and key in supermarkets (Afro hair wig, Afro hair products, etc) while those for whites (sunscreen etc) are not. Why bias-free? Because the decision to put specific items under lock and key is almost exclusively made on the basis of algorithms and statistical analysis; if certain items are stolen a lot more than average they will be put under lock and key, especially the higher the value of those items. The fact that those items are only popular with and used by the black demographic is rather telling. Psych0-007 (talk) 22:28, 21 November 2022 (UTC)