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A Twitter Debate, Black Crime in America
This article was written as a response to a Twitter post. This is such a complicated and controversial topic that it can’t be covered in a single tweet or even in a thread of tweets. On the other hand, I don’t want to write a whole book or report about it either.
This short document should give sufficient numbers to support the assertion that a small number of people (black people) are responsible for most crimes in America. Although, I’m not sure why it’s needed at this point.
It’s commonly argued these days by blacks and by white liberals who support blacks, that black crime is low and Whites commit most of the crime in the country. Although everyone instinctively knows that’s not true.
While White crime is indeed and unfortunately high, based on the proportions of the population, it’s dramatically lower than black crime.
Manipulating the numbers
Most Conservatives do not concern themselves with manipulating the numbers, they typically base opinions on what the numbers show. They typically don’t try to change the numbers to support their case or point of view.
It’s letting the evidence determine the hypothesis, rather than starting with a hypothesis and finding the numbers that support your claims.
And recent events and evidence released by Twitter’s new owner and CEO Elon Musk regrettably prove that Democrats, liberals, and U.S. federal agencies have been behind the fraud, data manipulation, and suppression of data and opinions.
All that said, it is hard to find actual unmanipulated and unbiased statistics as it’s a common trend these days to not report the race of the offender as race tensions increase in the U.S. and abroad. The topic is arguably the most politically and socially charged topic in the U.S.
As a reporter, I was told about 6 years ago to NOT report on the race of the offender due to a large backlash of black readers.
And that trend has continued across all reporting, including the FBI crime stats, Dep. of Justice and The National Crime Victimization Survey and local and national media.
However, there are some numbers that show high crime rates among the black population as compared to the White population.
According to what I could find, as reporting has changed so dramatically in the last few years, about 69% of “non-fatal violent crime and serious non-fatal violent crime” is committed by 13% of the population, which are blacks.
“In 2018, based on data from the FBI’s Uniform
Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, black people
were overrepresented among persons arrested for
nonfatal violent crimes (33%) and for serious nonfatal
violent crimes (36%) relative to their representation
in the U.S. population (13%) (table 1).1 White people
were underrepresented. White people accounted for
60% of U.S. residents but 46% of all persons arrested
for rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and other assault,
and 39% of all arrestees for nonfatal violent crimes
excluding other assault. Hispanics, regardless of their
race, were overrepresented among arrestees for nonfatal
violent crimes excluding other assault (21%) relative to
their representation in the U.S. population (18%).”
These numbers do not include all crimes numbers and stats.
Here is more on that discussion Posted on the National Library of Medicine with sources.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, racial and ethnic differences in the rates of serious juvenile and adult offending have been repeatedly observed in the United States (Hawkins, Laub, & Lauritsen, 1998). The lifetime risk of being arrested and incarcerated for Black and Hispanic males is much higher than it is for White males (Blumstein & Graddy, 1982; Bonczar & Beck, 1997), rates of involvement in serious violence are much higher for Blacks than Whites (Morenoff, 2005), and Blacks have a higher rate of personal violence and homicide victimization than Whites do (Sampson & Lauritsen, 1997). Despite widespread consensus about these disparities, the discussion of race and crime remains “mired in an unproductive mix of controversy and silence” (Sampson & Wilson, 1995, p. 37), with many criminologists who “loathe to speak openly on race and crime for fear of being misunderstood or labeled a racist” (Sampson & Lauritsen, 1997, p. 32).
One of the key disputes in the race–crime literature concerns the overrepresentation of Blacks in official crime statistics (Walker, Spohn, & DeLone, 2003). Race-specific arrest rates published by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program are often used to illustrate the problem. As shown in Table 1, non-White arrest rates are higher than White arrest rates for all crimes (and summary indices).1 For example, the non-White arrest rate for robbery was 132.8 per 100,000, whereas the comparable rate for Whites was 23.0 per 100,000. The non-White to White robbery ratio was 5.773, indicating that for everyone White who was arrested for robbery, almost six non-Whites were arrested for robbery.
Activists’ Claims
These people on Twitter and other social media making these claims are a part of a growing and massive trend to try and paint the picture that blacks are victims, and white people are racist and somehow unfair to blacks and commit more crimes than blacks.
I honestly do not understand what people gain from trying to change and manipulate the numbers. I myself don’t care about the outcome. Let the numbers speak for themselves. If Whites commit more crimes, then let’s do something about it, and if blacks commit more crimes let’s address that too. But we can’t, we’re not allowed to.
I would just work with what the numbers show and form an opinion from there. However, these people and a growing number of politicians are for some reason committed to manipulating the numbers and are under-representing racial crime data and arrest rates, among other facts.
Although many residents in black communities are angry at the police for not policing their neighborhoods due to overwhelmingly high crime and violence, just about every police officer in the free world is deathly afraid of arresting a black person for fear of losing their job, being sued or actually going to jail for hurting the black person that’s in the act of committing a crime, even if the offender is in the act of fighting with the police and resisting arrest.
That’s why actual laws are being changed so police don’t have to arrest black criminals or in many cases, they’re not allowed to. Blacks have been given a free pass to commit crimes, and they’re taking full advantage of it.
Anyone with any common sense knows that if you engage in a fight, especially with the police, you run the risk of bodily injury or death. However, blacks and a growing majority of white liberals say that the injury or death is now the police officer’s fault, even when blacks are in the act of committing a crime, resisting arrest and/or fighting with the police.
Here is an excerpt of a Color of Crime report by By Edwin S. Rubenstein, M.A., New Century Foundation that discusses in more detail the change in crime reporting.
Race of Offender
It is surprisingly difficult to arrive at a definitive picture of the races of offenders. The National Crime Victimization Survey categorizes crime victims by race and Hispanic ethnicity, but until recently, it did not consider Hispanics a separate offender category; it usually called them “white” or “other race.” Furthermore, beginning in 2009, the year the Obama administration took office, the NCVS stopped publishing information on race of offender, even though it continued to gather the data. In 2015, the Department of Justice finally released a partial set of offender-race information (see page 13 below).
The Uniform Crime Reports program, which is the basis of the FBI’s national tabulation of arrests, includes Hispanics in the “white” category. Arrest and incarceration rates by race — to the extent they are even available — must often serve as imperfect indicators of actual offense rates by race.
As we will see in greater detail below, blacks are arrested at much higher rates than any other racial group.2 It is common to argue that these high rates are the result of racial bias, and that bias continues through every stage of criminal processing: indictment, plea bargain, trial, sentencing, parole, etc. In 2008, then-senator Barack Obama asserted that blacks and whites “are arrested at very different rates, are convicted at very different rates, [and] receive very different sentences … for the same crime.” This view is echoed by the media but is not supported by either the scholarly literature or by government statistics.
Police, in particular, are often accused of racial bias, but is it really plausible that they arrest blacks they know are innocent but ignore white criminals? A 2008 summary of earlier research compared the races of offenders as identified by victims to the races of perpetrators arrested by the police and found that “the odds of arrest for whites were 22 percent higher for robbery, 13 percent higher for aggravated assault, and 9 percent higher for simple assault than they were for blacks, whereas there were no differences for forcible rape.”
So, we may not be able to calculate the exact crime numbers any longer, especially these days, however, we all know the truth, that crime reporting methods have dramatically changed over the last few years in an open attempt to underreport black crime.
And that black crime in America, and indeed other parts of the 1st. world has reached epidemic proportions and is such a problem that people are afraid to go out in public, business owners are closing or are moving out of risky neighborhoods, the police are afraid to do their jobs and the country is torn like never before due to racial tensions and the black crime wave. Many are at a loss as to how we’ll be able to repair the situation and move forward together. Perhaps we can’t.
In fact, many black people have voiced their opinion in public, and on camera that they don’t want to live with Whites any longer, that they want a complete separation. Which might be the only way forward.
Whites have actually tried to force our way of life on blacks, perhaps they don’t want it? Perhaps this is their loud message that they don’t want our way of life, our ideas or our society.
A challenge
Even though the crime stats are ambiguous, I challenge anyone to show more or as many videos of white crime as there are showing black crime – violence, looting, robbery and murder etc. in public.
Just antidotally, if you’ve ever wondered why White people cross the street when approached by a group of black people or youth, ask yourself, how many times have you ever heard of someone walking down the street and being punched in the face, unprovoked, by a white person passing them? Very Few or ZERO. In contrast, how many incidents have you heard of, of a person walking down the street and being punched in the face, unprovoked, by a black person? MANY, many have been caught on video.
Here are just a few:
Here are some more videos you might enjoy:
74-year-old woman punched in random attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhsHI2Y6NrY
Over 60 people shot, 15 fatally, in violent holiday weekend in Chicago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WTCQ8_NsbQ
At least 48 shot, 4 fatally in weekend violence across Chicago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJy7VBAZgKM
Crime has some women small business owners in Chicago planning on leaving
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZvNCmdfgyY
Theft from black people is so high, it’s actually affecting the nation’s entire economy.
Ex-Home Depot CEO: Never thought I’d see this in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hicIKkL-d8I
A #FlashMob Of Looters Ransack A 7-Eleven In Los Angeles During A Street Takeover
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/t6XcC03q-TM
RAW: Video shows multiple suspects looting a L.A. 7-Eleven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFv21mwNaZs
Hundreds of (BLACK) looters caught on video breaking into Tampa Walmart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50qXWSfozFI
Philadelphia Supermarket (BLACK OWNED) Looted for 15 Hours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqK60iUXfpE
I’m not sure how many videos like these everyone needs to see before we all stop trying to defend black people and paint White people as racist criminals.
More Data:
And here’s a screenshot from the UK’s Crime stats.
Here’s a screenshot of violent crimes, by victim demographic. It seems that White people are victims much more often than blacks, yet it’s blacks that cry the most about being victims.
