“Want to lower the crime rate in the minority community ? “
Well, guess it depends on what the definition of “is” is. Detroit reached its population peak of 1.9M about the mid 50’s. Population now is about 0.7M and continues to decline. During this same time period white population has shifted from 87% to about 10%. Sooo, I’m thinking that the white population is in the minority now?
Disproportionate black crime is not a new thing.
Back in the 50’s one of the things it was blamed on was failure to integrate.
We certainly wouldn’t want to hold blacks themselves responsible that would be ‘racist’. Instead we will just continue to spiral ever downward making excuse after excuse.
National Affairs: THE NEGRO CRIME RATE: A FAILURE IN INTEGRATION
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,810262,00.html
Not even that. Exclusively White in Detroit was 7.8% as of 2010 (just 56,000 people). You’d have to go back to about 1865 when the city had that few number of Whites (and at that time, they made up 97% of the population).
Even Blacks are voting with their feet in Detroit. They reached a zenith in 1990 (780,000). In 2010 it dropped to 590,000, roughly the total Black population around 1965. Only the Hispanic population increased, and that by just 1,500 over 2000 (now at 49,000).
If the trends hold, Hispanics have likely already eclipsed the White population in Detroit in the past 2 years. Barring a turn-around, I recall reading an article in the ‘90s that expects the city to probably bottom out at or around 300,000 or so (its population around 1900, before the auto industry boomed).
To answer your point, quite so, in many urban locales, calling Blacks (or even some Hispanics), a “minority” is not technically correct. Remarkably for Chicago, it’s a three-way split between them. How long that will hold is the question.