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Many ppl love to focus on how certain minority groups commit disproportionate levels of crime but don't they realize that when those groups are middle class or affluent, their criminal offending rates goes down CATASTROPHICALLY. It's crazy how ppl love to parade around these statistics in a desperate effort to paint blacks as a criminal race when the main indicator is clearly just income.
And how come there are no/very few stats on the class of criminal offenders? Why does the government REFUSE to publish these stats?
Well upon my own research, here's what I discovered:
Woodmore, MD:
- 82% black
- Median Household Income: $161k
- Violent crime is 61% lower than the state avg:
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Brandywine, MD:
- 70% Black
- Median household income: $104k
- Violent crime is 74% lower than state avg:
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Ladera Heights, CA:
- 79% Black
- Median household income: $91k
- Violent crime is 74% lower than state avg
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Forest Park, OK
- 76% Black
- Median household income: $66k
- Violent crime is 78% lower than state avg
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Hillcrest, NY:
- 59% Black
- Median household income: $95k
- Violent crime is 74% lower than state avg:
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Olympia Fields, IL:
- 69% Black
- Median household income: $75k
- Violent crime is 85% lower than state avg:
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Springdale, MD
- 90% Black
- Median household income: $106k
- Violent Crime is 76% lower than state avg:
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View Park-Windsor Hills, CA:
- 83% Black
- Median household income:$73k
- Violent crime is 51% lower than state avg:
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Rosaryville, MD:
- 81% Black
- Median household income: $110k
- Violent crime is 44% lower than state avg:
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..I can go on and on but I have other things to do.
So does anybody have anything of value to add? or disagree in any way?
I don't know that it does get totally ignored. It's well known that income is a much better predictor of crime than race. The stats are certainly harder to come up with though. Race is a relatively easy bit of nominal data. Income is harder; first you need to find out what someone's income is, then you need to put the various incomes into various bins with appropriate ranges, and those ranges will differ by location.
It's only the racist nuts who want to make some weird argument about how being black inherently makes one a criminal that ignore basic facts.
I agree. One important, illusive factor today is determining the value of resources so many receive in government program benefits. It's almost impossible to determine. In addition, those using government benefits suffer a downside: psychology they suffer from their dependence.
SES is the main determinate in crime and types of crime are determined by SES as well.
Many ppl love to focus on how certain minority groups commit disproportionate levels of crime but don't they realize that when those groups are middle class or affluent, their criminal offending rates goes down CATASTROPHICALLY
Because you don't hsave the same levels of violent crime in poor white neighborhoods.
Because you don't hsave the same levels of violent crime in poor white neighborhoods.
I think the main reason for that is geographic. Poor white neighborhoods are usually rural, or old suburbs. Those environments aren't conducive to gangbanging. You need high population density.
Where do poor whites mostly live? Rural areas and places with low population density.
How about poor hispanics then? Granted, there are many that are involved with gangs, but you don't seem to hear about hispanic on hispanic murders day in day out like you do with blacks.
How about poor hispanics then? Granted, there are many that are involved with gangs, but you don't seem to hear about hispanic on hispanic murders day in day out like you do with blacks.
You can't compare immigrant groups to a pre-existing group. Immigrants generally come here with a purpose/dream/goal/ambition and don't get caught up in stupid crap nearly as much. Even if you compare Black African immigrants, Black African immigrants rarely shoot up each other in the U.S. and get involved in crazy violent crime.
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