That question was wild not because it was clever, but because it was loaded and clearly bait. Throwing out a recycled statistic like that without context is how conversations get derailed into ignorance instead of facts. Crime stats are tied to things like poverty, policing, location, and systemic issues—not skin color—but people love pretending numbers exist in a vacuum. So the real shock wasn’t him getting asked the question, it was how casually someone thought that was an okay thing to drop,