Either race should be mentioned in every newspaper crime report or in no newspaper crime report.
As has been mentioned, the media only mentions race when it involves white on black crime. In the Duke University affair, it isn't even apparent that a crime was committed, but every article mentions the race of the alleged victim and the team. You are being manipulated by the media.
No - I'm not. I simply don't obsess on it.
For better or for worse, this is the way it works in the big city -- you prosecute with the charges on which you can get a conviction or satisfy the public with a plea deal.
What Federal Prosecutor is going to take that case to court? To get that low in your career you'd have to do something really bad, like give the Attorney General a wedgy or start impersonating Moe Howard in court.