Are these statistics a legitimate point of concern for white Chicago residents?

Artful D0dger · Jun 17, 2011

Haha, guess no one wanted to talk about the hard data after all?

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I'd like to take a look at where you got the racial crime stats in Chicago. I could not find any.

As for interracial and racial data on crime nationally, here is what I found:

Race, Crime, and Justice in America
Second, Expanded Edition, 2005

Interracial Crime

Of the nearly 770,000 violent interracial crimes committed every year involving blacks and whites, blacks commit 85 percent and whites commit 15 percent.
Blacks commit more violent crime against whites than against blacks. Forty-five percent of their victims are white, 43 percent are black, and 10 percent are Hispanic. When whites commit violent crime, only three percent of their victims are black.
Blacks are an estimated 39 times more likely to commit a violent crime against a white than vice versa, and 136 times more likely to commit robbery.
Blacks are 2.25 times more likely to commit officially-designated hate crimes against whites than vice versa.

Crime Rates

Blacks are seven times more likely than people of other races to commit murder, and eight times more likely to commit robbery.
When blacks commit crimes of violence, they are nearly three times more likely than non-blacks to use a gun, and more than twice as likely to use a knife.
Hispanics commit violent crimes at roughly three times the white rate, and Asians commit violent crimes at about one quarter the white rate.
The single best indicator of violent crime levels in an area is the percentage of the population that is black and Hispanic.

http://www.colorofcrime.com/colorofcrime2005.pdf

The data came from the DOJ, and this is the latest large, academic study which I have been able to find.
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Mercor · Jun 17, 2011

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I'd like to take a look at where you got the racial crime stats in Chicago. I could not find any.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Chicago

CaptainObvious · Oct 8, 2011

As dangerous as Chicago is for whites, it's far more dangerous to be black in Chicago. The natives were restless last night. Warm weather heats things up.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/8101142-418/two-dead-21-wounded-by-citywide-gunfire.html

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Are these statistics a legitimate point of concern for white Chicago residents?

A legitimate concern for white Chicagoans, or is the notion of a white issue racist?

Legitimate

Racist

Artful D0dger

Mercor

CaptainObvious