Ambulance Data Reveals That Boston Drivers Are 4 Times More Likely to Run Over Pedestrians From Black Neighborhoods

[DrParasite]

Ambulance Data Reveals That Boston Drivers Are 4 Times More Likely to Run Over Pedestrians From Black Neighborhoods - Streetsblog Massachusetts
https://mass.streetsblog.org/2025/0...run-over-pedestrians-from-black-neighborhoods

 

[E tank]

Wonder what the police data show?

 

[CCCSD]

So black drivers are 4 times more likely to run over their own. Thank goodness all this research was done…

 

[E tank]

So black drivers are 4 times more likely to run over their own. Thank goodness all this research was done…

Well...doesn't say that...but the raw observational data do beg the question. And the reality is, publishing these raw numbers with no context or controls is not infrequently to service a particular narrative and because of the disingenuous motives, it frequently back fires. When sincere care for the intended at risk group is not really the objective, the narrative tends to unravel. Like the disproportionate media attention to 'mass' shootings in unexpected settings all the while ignoring, for example, every single weekend in the city of Chicago...

 

[CCCSD]

Well...doesn't say that...but the raw observational data do beg the question. And the reality is, publishing these raw numbers with no context or controls is not infrequently to service a particular narrative and because of the disingenuous motives, it frequently back fires. When sincere care for the intended at risk group is not really the objective, the narrative tends to unravel. Like the disproportionate media attention to 'mass' shootings in unexpected settings all the while ignoring, for example, every single weekend in the city of Chicago...

Yep. Thank you for making my point making your point.

Bad data tied up in a bow by important sounding people makes bad policy.