- Joined
- Aug 18, 2009
- Messages
- 47,435
- Reaction score
- 20,857
Yes, it is what's happening. Despite making up a much smaller portion of the population, blacks commit almost as many total murders as whites.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u....f_vicitm_by_race_and_sex_of_offender_2013.xls
Even if the killers in the 102 homicides where the killer's race unknown were white, blacks would still have committed murder at a much higher rate than whites.
Your theory that suburbia is just as dangerous as places like Baltimore, Chicago, or Oakland -- the data just do not reflect it because there are so many murders in white neighborhoods that are unsolved due to lack of enough police resources in them -- is not convincing.
My theory? You literally picked one crime stat out of the 20+ that the FBI tracks. First, it's crime. Then it's violent crime. Now it's just homicides.
This is what happens every time the conversation comes up. Black crime is talked about. Then the range is narrowed to violent crime. Then the range is narrowed further to homicide. Disregarding that homicide is one of the least prevalent violent crimes.
So, are you discussing crime, violent crime, or just homicide? And if not "crime" in total...why not?
Then - are we talking about the actual number of crimes committed or just the rate of crime by proportionality? And if not both...why not?
And are you going to address the feedback loop issue?