What? Taking a way segregation did not cause crime. That makes no sense. Urban inner city minorities self segregate and they are the largest element of crime. Integrated communities are aren’t the problem.
It wasn’t the lack of segregation that caused crime, it was the loss of white *and* black social systems that drove out criminals. That is, whites who favored desegregation did not distinguish between black people of good character and black people of bad character.
And this has haunted black Americans ever since. Middle class black people are horrified of the idea that they are equated with lower class, criminal blacks. An earned Bachelors or Masters degree is *not* the same as having spent ten years in prison, and yet society often equates the two among blacks. Or at least middle class black people think so.
Taken further, when police in the US were encouraged to adopt “SWAT” tactics, in the mid to late 1970s, they also stopped treating people of different social classes differently, and appropriately to their class. Instead they treated a polite person (of whatever race) like they were some criminal gutter dweller.
This created enormous resentment among middle and upper class black people. “I am an executive with an MBA. I am not some crack head rapper with a string of priors, so quit treating me like one.”