A few numbers on Black vs White crime:
Hi all,
considering the recent Clinton vs BLM that just came out, I have seen the most racist / bigoted claims and stats thrown around trying to defend the logic that "Blackness" is the problem.
So I had an hour to waste digging around for these stats and I wanted to compare homicides to poverty and extreme poverty levels (since this is usually the strongest motivator/indicator for crimes).
This is what I found:
Non-hispanic Caucasians make up 62% of the US.
Their poverty rate is 10 % which means 6.2% of the US population is Poor white folks.
African Americans make up 16 % of the US population and 28% of them are poor: that means 4.5 % of the US population is poor black folks.
I didn't find stats on gun violence but I found homicides:
Killed by Whites: 2370
Killed by Blacks: 2698
Now for how many homicides they commit based on poverty levels:
Blacks:Whites 1.56:1
So based on poverty levels alone, African americans are 56% more likely to commit homicide compared to whites. Still worryingly large difference, but I suspect if you look at extreme poverty the difference becomes even smaller.....
Here are my sources:
http://blackdemographics.com/households/poverty/
http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/poverty-rate-by-raceethnicity/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States#Black_Americans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Americans
As for extreme poverty:
according to Stanford University:
Extreme poverty:
782000 Whites in extreme poverty
758000 Blacks in extreme poverty
Homicides based on extreme poverty:
Blacks:Whites 1.17:1 .. So if you look at people living in extreme poverty (which is the biggest factors that determine crime) in the US African Americans commit homicides at 17% higher rates than whites...
If you genuinely care about crime and violence you have to address the issue of poverty.
https://web.stanford.edu/group/scspi/_media/pdf/pathways/summer_2014/Pathways_Summer_2014_ShaeferEdin.pdf
I haven't looked up any other racist/bigoted claims about crime than this atm, but I just wanted to get the worst one out of the way.
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