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I've seen statistics showing that the black overrepresentation is particularly great for people committing interracial rape, hardly what one thinks of as an economic crime.

mrustow, thanks for the links. Horowitz appears to get his data from the links below, a report issued a few years ago.

Aristeides, you can find detailed statistics here Color of Crime-PDF file

Color of Crime-HTML Cached copy

Using your example of Rape/Sexual assault, for 1999:

White Victims 313,080100

78.4% White Perp (245,454)
10.1% black perp (31,621), remainder unknown

Black Victims 53,670

10.1% white perp (5,420)
83.5% (44,814) black perp, remainder unknown

A white victim is as likely to be attacked by a black (10.1%) as a black victim by a white (10.1%). From that perspective, the racial fear factor appears to be the same.

However, there are 37, 041 cross racial rapes, of which 85% were black on white crimes. And of the 76,435 rapes committed by blacks (about 25% of the total), 41% were cross racial, compared to only 3% for white rapists. Race would appear to be a factor. The stats appear to be similar for other categories.

of the cross racial rapes, and if you assume random targets, you should expect blacks to account for 82% and whites to account for about 18%. That's because there are more white targets for blacks than vice versa because there are more white people. Nevertheless, the most likely rape comes from your neighbor and given the social segregation in the US, most of the time it is whites raping whites and blacks raping blacks.

I still don't understand why crime isn't crime, regardless of race.

Thanks for the background and links.

Re race and crime, though with less in the way of hard numbers, see also:

The Philadelphia Story: When the Cops are Criminals

Solving Philly Crime with an Eraser: The "Good Irishman" and the Race Man

De-Policing in America's Cities: Erasing the "Thin Blue Line"