Why do crime statistics show racial patterns, and what explains them?

[Anonymous]

Have you ever noticed that certain crimes seem to be disproportionately associated with particular racial or ethnic groups?
For example, people often associate violent street crime and robbery with Black communities, organized crime and certain forms of drug trafficking with particular immigrant or ethnic groups, and crimes such as serial murder or sexual offending with White offenders.
I'm not saying people of other races don't commit these crimes. Obviously they do. And I'm not saying someone's race determines their behavior.
What interests me is the pattern in the statistics and the question behind it.
If a particular demographic appears disproportionately represented in a particular category of crime, why? Is it culture? Poverty? Geography? Age distribution? Family structure? Opportunity? Gang involvement? Drug markets? Policing? Differences in reporting and arrest? Or something else we haven't fully understood?
And there is another uncomfortable question: are we sometimes confusing a statistical pattern with a racial cause?
Research does find racial differences in offending and criminal-justice involvement for some categories, but researchers also point to socioeconomic conditions, neighborhood environments, segregation, policing practices, and other factors that can contribute to those differences.
So I'm not asking this to accuse an entire race of anything.
I'm asking because if we can acknowledge that patterns exist in some datasets, shouldn't we also be willing to ask what actually produces those patterns?
What do you think we're missing when we look at crime through the lens of race?

[exitseven]

I often wonder about this as well. I think it is a complex issue that has no easy answer. Most likely it is related to lack of family stability.

[Asker]

True

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO

[Snakeyes7]

There could be many factors, but I'd say the biggest one is the cultural aspects of areas with high amounts of that population.

[RavVid]

Temperament.

As you have pointed there are many factors in crime stats. Poverty is one. Consequences is another.

In my Australian state, the about to be decimated gov't has created a crime wave among teens because they removed consequences for young offenders. So Police might bring a teen before a court in the morning and court puts her/him on bail and the offender is arrested by the Police for a new crime in the afternoon.

No consequences has resulted in teens murdering people; girls as well as boys. So this progressive experiment has demonstrated that effective Policing and consequences has significant impact on crime stats.

I said temperament at the start.

Some people are just nicer than others. The Southern English are the nicest of people whilst the Northern English are... not so nice. I have heard Northern girls berate their northern boyfriend for not having been violent. The crime rate is higher in the north than the south.

Saying please and thank you is a factor in the crime rate I think, though can't prove.

[Anonymous]

Blacks and Latinos in the US have a very high standard of living. It isn't poverty. Rather it is the way they are raised. Amongst too many ghetto black and Latin families being good means respecting your elders and not questioning them. As a result elders in those communities don't feel the need to set a good example for their children, they lie steal and cheat themselves. They won't usually tell their children to do the same, but if their kids question them about morality they will shout "don't talk back to me" or worse, but once the kids are no longer under your roof or they have become big enough that the belt is no longer an option kids will start imitating their parents' bad behavior. The kids will say to themselves that the most important thing in life is having money that way I can be an independent person like my parents and will be a rule maker instead of follower. If I make money by less than honest means it is ok, my parents did that too, if you are an elder you can do that. People can say I am mistaken but if so tell me how.

[jennifer_bloom]

I believe the targeted violence towards outsiders that is motivated by lust or sadism and not by poverty or drug addiction, is caused by a habitual resistance to relating to and understanding others, due to an incorrect understanding of moral propriety. And I believe violent crimes done for financial gain are motivated by negative and collective calibrations of societal groups based on the philosophy that those that differ economically or semantically, are not equally valid in moral standing or spiritual worth.

[OneViewpoint]

Mass shootings show racial and gender patterns... Angry young White Men radicalized on the internet by our homegrown White Fascist terrorists. Where's Homeland Security when we need them? "All enemies foreign and domestic" Isn't that the job description?

[Jackblue]

www.statista.com/.../ white shooters are 55 % of shootings, lower than the actual percentage of white people in the US. Do your research before talking liberal.

[Jackblue]

nij.ojp.gov/.../public-mass-shootings-database-amasses-details-half-century-us-mass-shootings It is even lower if Middle Easterners aren't counted as white.

[OneViewpoint]

@Jackblue ,

I said mass shootings Jackoff. You know, psycho shit. 95% of them are White males.

[NewtoCalifornia]

But they do they get arrested. How many mass shooters are walking free?

[OneViewpoint]

@NewtoCalifornia ,

Potentially thousands.

[Kelley1]

We know what it is, but we are not going to admit it because we would be called racist.

[strateguy632]

clearly that race gets violent more easily than others. or look for any excuse to be violent. it is probably lack of self control or lack of desire for self control.

[texasgirl012]

Racist post. Lying about other races is bad. Why don't you just go back to your interrracial porn and stop posting racism.

[AgentG111]

Um that's all you talk about

[Anonymous]

White people always want to talk about per capita when ut comes to black vs white crime but no mention of per capita when it comes to black vs white penis size.

[strateguy632]

who sees? we wear pants.

[Jackblue]

Ok black men have large dicks fine.

[Opinion Owner]

@Jackblue I thank you for your honesty

[Staximus]

You answered your own question, it’s a combination of many things