[ignatz_q]

Well, what do you expect when you commit 60% of the crimes.

Can you provide a source for this statistic? Just curious...

[VMI70]

Sixty-three percent of jail inmates belonged to racial or ethnic minorities in 1996, up slightly from 61% in 1989.

Cut and pasted from US DoJ-Bureau of Judicial Statistics. This is the latest year for the numbers on their web site. I would make book that in the last 5 years it has not changed all that much.

FReegards,

[monkeyshine]

Homicide trends in the U.S. Trends by race

Racial differences exist, with blacks disproportionately represented among homicide victims and offenders

Blacks were 6 times more likely than whites to be murdered in 1999

Blacks were 7 times more likely than whites to commit homicide in 1999

The race distribution of homicide victims and offenders differs by type of homicide

For the years 1976-99 combined -

Black victims are greatly over represented in homicides involving arguments or drugs. Compared with the overall involvement of blacks as victims, blacks are less often the victims of sex-related homicides, homicide by poison and workplace killings.

Race patterns among offenders are similar to those among victims, except that black offenders are involved in a relatively large percentage of felony-murders (nearly six out of ten).

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm

[Restorer]

Actually, I have seen such statistics, but darn if I remember where. I'll look around and see what I can find.

I primarily meant my post as irony.