Here is how I broke it down on my first pass when blacks were approximately 12% of the total US Population (I wrote this a few years back, so blacks are currently 15% or so AI says, so I would update. this as follows):
As for the statement about crime perpetrated by black males, I think the more accurate way to state this is that roughly 1-2% of the population cause 48% of all violent crime. Here is why I would make that statement:
- Blacks make up 15% of the overall population (2026) and males are half of that, so that drops the percent of the total population down to 7% or so, and I don't include women because the vast majority of all violent crime is by black men between the ages of 14 and 45. Older and younger people are generally not engaging in violent crime, and while black women have been doing so in recent history, it is not on the same scale as men. So a lot of black citizens are removed from the calculus.
- There is a study that states 30% of all black males have a felony conviction, so that roughly reduces it from 7% to 2% of the total population of the USA.
- Felony convictions of black men include both violent felonies (homicides/assaults, etc.) and non-violent felonies (theft, drug related, etc.) and I would be surprised if felonies for violent crime were 50% of that whole number, so that brings the percentage of black men who are responsible for violent crime in the US to the level where black men engaged in violent crime (a population of 1% of the total United States Population)
Reasonable people would look at this and understand this is not a condemnation of the entire black community who can be assumed to be law abiding, working, paying taxes, etc.
This is a complete condemnation of 1-2% of the population who engage in the vast majority of violent crime when normalized by populations as Bill Whittle, and the source, Heather MacDonald.