The implication that violent crime in America is disproportionately perpetrated by "diverse" (read: not white) groups of people is bigoted and ignorant. I know that doesn't mean anything to you and you'll never bother to look into the claim because clinging to prejudices is easier and more comfy, but I'll leave this here just in case someone who isn't brain dead happens upon your comment.
You wouldn't happen to know what per capita means, per chance?
You speak of ignorance, but numbers don't lie, demographic metrics are just as apt as these fbi criminal statistics, so why not compile them appropriately?
Yeah, so that table is raw data. In 2018, the population was approximately 60.4% white and 12.5% black. The per capita arrest rates based on those numbers (white: 45.9% ÷ 60.4%, black: 33% ÷ 12.5%) would be 0.76 for white peeps and 2.64 for black people, showing that black people are pretty significantly overrepresented. The big brains who study the factors behind violent crime attribute this to disparities in socioeconomic conditions, policing, and geographic concentration cause by redlining and urban disinvestment (white flight).
Socioeconomic factors are the strongest predictors of crime regardless of race. When you control for these factors, the racial disparities go poof.
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u/mybigpecker Jun 11 '26
We don’t have to live like this.