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Originally Posted by kstarnes
I think this is arguable, and certainly disputable. In fact, the statistics show a very different picture. I should strongly note that race should not be considered the "cause" as social conditions, poverty and other non-racial factors are major determinants to crime.
edit: One could also argue minorities are unfairly singled out by LEOs, or any number of other factors which lead to the imbalance in the race/crime ratio. Hope I didn't just touch the "third rail"!
These are just stats for homicide from the US DoJ:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm
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Kurt,
You surprise me here.
Your research is usually much more thorough than this.
Go back and look at total crime tables and see the difference in the types of crimes committed.
That will let you start to draw some more accurate conclusions of the socio economic factors that affect certain class structures propensity for specific criminal activity.