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Monday, December 15, 2014

The Color of Crime

The following facts are from a study done by New Century Foundation called "The Color of Crime".  I hope this will shed some light on the reasoning behind black people being stopped by police more then white people and should make you ask yourself why the media doesn't report the black on white crimes. 

  • Blacks are seven times more likely than people of other races to commit murder, and eight times more likely to commit robbery.

  • When blacks commit crimes of violence, they are nearly three times more likely than non-blacks to use a gun, and more than twice as likely to use a knife.

  • The single best indicator of violent crime levels in an area is the percentage of the population that is black and Hispanic.

  • Of the nearly 770,000 violent interracial crimes committed every year involving blacks and whites, blacks commit 85 percent and whites commit 15 percent

  • Blacks commit more violent crime against whites than against blacks. Forty-five percent of their victims are white, 43 percent are black, and 10 percent are Hispanic. When whites commit violent crime, only three percent of their victims are black.

  • Blacks are an estimated 39 times more likely to commit a violent crime against a white than vice versa, and 136 times more likely to commit robbery.

  • Blacks are 2.25 times more likely to commit officially-designated hate crimes against whites than vice versa. 
Simply look at these numbers and try to tell me that maybe you shouldn't be slightly more suspicious of an African American than a white male. If I didn't tell you which race was which and asked you which race is more dangerous it is very clear which one is more prone to crime. 

I have nothing against black people at all but don't try to make their whole race a sob story just because of the way the media portrays them all as defenseless victims. 

1 comment:

  1. you have some really interesting and provocative statistics here Michael, but I do think you resort to generalization in your last sentence.

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