I wonder why Lott cited statistics for the US as a whole when Bloomberg was probably only discussing NYC.
The best way to look at the crime rates is to imagine the crime rates without any black crime.
Then look at the statistics without any black or hispanic crime.
Then the stats will look a lot like pre-Islamic Sweden or Norway.
But—Bloomberg is not going to be honest and deliver the bad news in front of a bad audience.
He will do what all slimy politicians do—evade, lie, deny, evade, lie, deny.
(My small town has mostly folks of Norwegian ancestry—they won’t even run through a stop sign. ;-) )