The numbers are even worse than that - you have to compare 53% of murders committed by 12% of the population, to 47% committed by 88% - your ratio is (53/12) / (47/88) = 8 with rounding.
Blacks commit murder at 8 times the rate non-blacks do.
Of course men commit murder at 9 times the rate women do.
Mrs VS
Based on my experience working in the inner city I don’t see the demographics as a color issue... it is a culture issue. The inner city of America is statistically a Garden of Evil where the many social ills such as drugs, violence, gangs, the worst of the hip-hop culture (gangsta rap), dysfunctional homes, poverty, etc etc etc all combine to shape young children into thugs. The decent people who live there seem incapable (along with government) of making any meaningful change.
I would bet you get the same statistical result from white children who grow up in the same environment. I believe framing the debate on the issue of race is a mistake.
It is a national tragedy that we are raising generations of children in such an environment on the taxpayers dime. There is little America would not do to prevent the perversion of so many young children under other circumstances but we seem incapable of true intervention in these communities because we are unable to have an honest debate (political correctness). Anyone who has spent years working with people in such an environment should not be surprised that it produces persons capable of acts like this.
Their environment does not excuse evil acts or crimes but I guarantee you that many we read about in the paper today were probably showing symptoms as small children 10 or 15 years ago and little or nothing was done to intervene.
Thanks for the correction - I think...
Lots worse than I thought....