AOG
I *knew* I hadn't asked the question properly.
Yes - 87% of those who die in custody are white, but as a statistic is that much different from the number of non-whites who die in custody.
Bear with me - I'll rephrase...
If 100,000 whites are arrested in a year, which percentage of those die in custody.
If If 75,000 non-whites are arrested in a year, which percentage of those die in custody.
The 87% gives us an overall figure, but my point is that for each group, the proportion of people who die in custody may actually be similar.
To take it to it's logical extent...if one Aborigine was arrested and died of a heart attach whilst in the cells, the percentage of Aborigines who died in police custody that year would be 100%...which would look bad...