“Remove the black population and the crimes committed by black perps from the stats, and the US murder rate plunges to Nordic country levels.”
Out of all the many, many articles on crime, etc. that I’ve read I’ve never seen that spelled out before. Of course it makes sense, although I will note I’m taking your math at face value.
How would Hispanics figure in? LOL white-Hispanics and Hispanic-Hispanics I guess I mean.
Ron Unz (the man who spearheaded CA's anti-bilingual school instruction initiative) argues that on an age-adjusted basis, Hispanics commit crimes at about the same rate as whites. Edwin Rubenstein suggests, in this essay that Unz's assertion isn't wholly supported by the facts. I haven't had time to crawl through all the numbers, but I tend to believe Unz's assertion, mainly because the guy he got to cobble the numbers together is a right-winger and Santorum-supporter, Razib Khan, who's good friends with John Derbyshire. Criminality and low average IQ aren't necessarily correlated.
On average, blacks appear to be instinctively more likely to see the other people's (blacks or otherwise) lives and possessions much as eagles see mice scurrying across a field - targets for attack. Morality or law (which are man-made rules created to prevent a constant war of all against all) simply do not come into the picture, other than as inconvenient impediments to personal gratification. It's not just violent crimes at which blacks are overrepresented - they also commit roughly 50% of the white collar crimes despite being 12% of the population. This built-in sociopathy (again this is on average - not all blacks are sociopaths, but more blacks are likely to be sociopathic than other races) is also why blacks are statistically overrepresented among the ranks of serial killers.
It stands to reason. Non-black Hispanics are basically Native Americans from south of the border with different degrees of European blood. Native Americans simply aren't big time offenders - their social pathologies tend to be turned inward.