Somewhat, but poverty is not the sole indicator of violent crime rates. If it were, then white appalachia and Indian reservations would have the highest rape, robbery and murder rates in the nation, NOT negro and hispanic filled inner citys. It's all about a group's cultural outlook and the negro and the hispanic gang culture win in the violent crimes statistics hands down. You can tell me about some white trash meth heads in TX and LA but these white trash scumbags don't even come close to having the same level of violent street crimes as hispanics and negroes do. You people, liberals, can whine, cry and ***** about it as much as you want, but the numbers don't lie, they are what they are and the numbers point to the fact that negroes and hispanics commit OVER 50% of the murders in this nation, WELL OVER 50% much closer to 80% nationwide and over 95% in many jurisdictions yet they, hispanics and negroes, make up only about 29% of our total population. You keep right on telling me about those few white trash meth heads, and I'll keep telling you about the 80+% of violent crimes in this nation being committed by a small percentage of our population who happen to be non-white. Figure they make up only about 29% of our total population and how many of that total number are actual violent scumbags? Well with the negro we need to look at the number of male vs females so the number is nowhere near their total of 13%, for argument's sake we'll take half that number for males, meaning approx 6.5% of the negro population is male, out of that, 33% are criminals, this once again from the DOJ statistics, so we have a bit over 2% of our negro population committing almost 50% of the murders and other violent crimes in this nation. Add in hispanic gang members, (who are the other group that contributes to the 80% of violent crimes), who probably make up less than 1% of the hispanic population in this nation and we see that less than 3%, give or take, of our population is responsible for approx 80% of our violent crimes. Seems to me killing this tiny group would make this nation one of the safest places on earth to live and would benefit society financially to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars a year. By eliminating this tiny demographic from this nation, either through forced expulsion from the country, if anyone else would take them, or failing that, by firing squad, we could all have paid health care, safer streets/less crime and be able to feed EVERY poor kid in this nation. Simple choice in my opinion.