It is not the number of blacks, it is the type of neighborhood. Black people, unfortunately, seem to be highly represented in those neighborhoods.
I do not have statistics handy, but I think that Black people living in middle class neighborhoods are no more problematic than white, Asian, or Hispanic people in those neighborhoods.
This country has been a deliberate experiment in terms of regional needs and allowing the development of respective sub-cultures.
This is been a successful experiment. We have, for various reasons, influenced the evolution of each sub-culture and we can see the results. We could look at specifics, such as aggregation of people having the same color or ethnicity, or we can look at the differences from a more abstract point of view.
In the abstract, I’ll argue the issue is very simple - Judeo-Christian ethics and the level that they’re woven into the fabric of the sub-culture. The level of crime in sub-cultures that reject this ethics system, either implicitly or explicitly, is directly proportional.
The left believes one can be a “good person” without God. I believe this makes a fundamental assumption about what “good” is. A given culture defines “good” based on the ethics system that saturates it. In this country we have a legacy ethics system that binds us together and what we can agree on as “good”. As time moves forward however, each sub-culture diverges from what is “good” and we’re now seeing this in many segments of the country. As the left has abandoned God and insists on constructing their alternate reality of truth, their definition of “good” is now very different than those that are religious. On top of this, the concept of “good” is also wildly different among various religions due to the differences in respective ethics-systems.
It is no surprise that an ethics system of life, forgiveness, love thy enemy, etc. produces a society that reflects this. To the opposite; hip-hop death culture, Islamic ethics, left wing godless arrogant narcissism, etc., that outright reject Judeo-Christian ethics all lead to death, poverty, misery, and hate.
It’s all exposed now for all to see. We need to bring the discussion to the level of ethics systems and argue the ‘compare and contrast’ between them. Ask an atheist what is their ethics system...what grounds their beliefs? As they have none, this is why we see them, not just move more left, but accelerate and lurch far left very quickly. They have no ethics basis, the strongest voice moves everyone immediately - there is no Bible to reconcile against. For Muslims, they’re in the worst position. They have a book to reconcile against new ideas, the problem being that the book they reference has everything backwards.
This has all been enabled by technology. The ability to move and communicate very quickly. We’re able to see the evolution of society in real-time, moving at a pace unheard of in history. Without the Internet there’d be no global Islamic terrorism. Without aircraft we’d all be moving around much more slowly. That everything is so fluid now enables us to zero in on what it is that makes us different from each other. What we need to do now is have a formal analysis of each ethics basis and expose evil, which is to get otherwise good people to do bad things in the name of “good”.