RealClearPolicy looks at
research which tries to tease out the relationships among race, poverty, and violent crime. What was found profoundly violates political correctness norms.
Black and white census tracts have slightly higher violent crime rates as the level of census tract poverty increases. However, at each poverty concentration level, the violent crime rate is substantially higher in black than in white census tracts. Moreover, there are many Hispanic census tracts with high poverty concentration levels but relatively low rates of violent crime.
Meanwhile other researchers found:
The same patterns when looking at the relationship between unemployment and violent crime rates. Holding unemployment rates constant, black census tracts had much higher violent crime rates than either white or Hispanic ones.
Given the far-too-high numbers of young black men murdered by other young black men in our cities, the findings are not especially surprising.
