Color of Crime

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I have come across a report published by New century Foundation ,Oakton . Before going to the content and expressing my concern I would like to admit that the report goes against my old presumption . I also would request everybody to be unbiased while responding to this discussion .I am not familiar with the name of the New Century Foundation .So, I desist from claiming authentycity or the opposite of the foundation or its report . The essence of the report is to prove wrong the the belief that in USA the white population is the major perpitrators of crime of general nature as well as of racial hatred .I am giving the findings in statistical terms :( I WOULD LIKE TO SEEK PARDON IF MY ACT IS VIOLATIVE OF COPYRIGHT ) Police and the justice system are not biased against minorities. 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. 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. Gangs • Only 10 percent of youth gang members are white. • Hispanics are 19 times more likely than whites to be members of youth gangs. Blacks are 15 times more likely, and Asians are nine times more likely. Incarceration • Between 1980 and 2003 the US incarceration rate more than tripled, from 139 to 482 per 100,000, and the number of prisoners increased from 320,000 to 1.39 million. • Blacks are seven times more likely to be in prison than whites. Hispanics are three times more likely. [Please refer to the webpage given below www.nc-f.org/findings.htm] I would like to know your opinion from either your own experiences of whatsoever type or from some indirect source such as readings.