[truth_seeker]

Justice Dept. stats reveal blacks commit murder at 7 times the rates of whites.

With just 13% of the population, blacks commit about 50% of murders.

And black of white assault is 40 times the rate, of white on black assault.

[marktwain]

I think the high black crime rate is cultural, not racial, in its base:

European Murder Rates Compared to the United States: Demographics vs Guns

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/01/european-murder-rates-compared-to.html

Remove the cultures that do not exist in Europe from the United States homicide rates, and the U.S. homicide rates fall in the middle of European rates.

[Bob]

Using that 13% overall population figure for comparison is misleading itself. A huge portion of the crimes are being committed by a subset of that 13%, specifically young black males. Using 13% makes the problem look less severe than it really is. The ‘usual suspects’ are probably no more than 4% or 5% of the country’s overall population.