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Vast majority of most crimes are committed by a person of the same race as the victim, Bureau of Justice Statistics reports.
The Justice Departmentās statistics-crunching arm just blew up a whole stack of white-supremacist myths about the nature of interracial crime and violence committed by minorities.
In a report released Thursday titled
Race and Hispanic Origin of Victims and Offenders, 2012-2015, the DOJās Bureau of Justice Statistics found that a majority of most violent crimes are committed by people who are the same race as their victims. Indeed, the rate of white-on-white violent crime, it found, is about four times the rate of black-on-white crime.
White supremacists frequently like to manipulate crime statistics in order to claim that nonwhite minorities, particularly African-Americans, are far more crime-prone and the source of most violent crime against whites. Indeed, it is a core belief that this is the case, and many white nationalist ideologues ā including politician and pundit
Patrick Buchanan,
Jared Taylor of American Renaissance, and the Council of Conservative Citizens ā all have made considerable hay out of proffering āstudiesā laden with risibly bad statistics and other evidence to make their case.
The BJS study demonstrates plainly that this is simply not the case. Some 57 percent of crimes involving white victims were committed by white perpetrators, while only 15 percent were committed by blacks, and 11 percent by Hispanics. Black crime victims fell along similar racial lines, with 63 percent of the crimes committed by black perpetrators, while 11 percent were committed by whites, and 6.6 percent by Hispanics.
Overall, the BJS reported, āthe percentage of intraracial [that is, same-race] victimization was higher than the percentage of interracial victimization for all types of violent crime except robbery.ā
Moreover, it
explained, āthe rate of white-on-white violent crime (12.0 per 1,000) was about four times higher than black-on-white violent crime (3.1 per 1,000). The rate of black-on-black crime (16.5 per 1,000) was more than five times higher than white-on-black violent crime (2.8 per 1,000). The rate of Hispanic-on-Hispanic crime (8.3 per 1,000) was about double the rate of white-on-Hispanic (4.1 per 1,000) and black-on-Hispanic (4.2 per 1,000) violent crime.ā
This is consistent with previously collected data, including
a National Crime Victim Survey in 2000 that showed that 73 percent of white violent crime victims were attacked by whites, and 80 percent of black victims were targeted by blacks. This pattern is even clearer in the category of murder.
That hasnāt chastened the people promulgating the distorted statistics. Buchanan,
citing Taylorās fake statistics in 2007, wrote: āThe real repository of racism in America ā manifest in violent interracial assault, rape and murder ā is to be found not in the white community, but the African-American community.ā
Nor have the smears faded at all: In 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump retweeted a graphic that originated on a neo-Nazi website trotting out statistics mainly lifted from Taylor and the CofCC.
The false beliefs that arise from these smears have consequences, too: Dylann Roof, the domestic terrorist who killed nine members of a Charleston churchās black congregation in June 2015, shouted during the rampage at his victims his belief that they were ākilling us.ā In his manifesto, he specifically
cited the CofCCās website and Taylorās smear pamphlet as the source of his information.
White supremacists' favorite myths about black crime rates take another hit from BJS study
White-on-White Crime
White on White Crime: The Statistic the Media Loves to Hide
3 Stats from the Department of Justice Disprove Racist Talking Points on Crime
Myths about Black and Latinx offenders disproportionately attacking White people may be titilating for White supremacists, but they are unsupported by the Bureau of Justice Statistics' new report.
President
Donald Trump and his supporters who are White supremacists rely on rhetoric that accuses people of colorāespecially Blacks and Latinxāof disproportionately committing violent crimes against White targets. Those allegations guide the Trump administrationās calls to strengthen the force used by law enforcement agencies
in cities and
along the U.S.-Mexico border. But a recent report from the Trump administrationās own tough-on-crime
Department of Justice (DOJ) rejects that premise.
The DOJās Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) numerically disproved people of colorās alleged criminality in ā
Race and Hispanic Origin of Victims and Offenders, 2012-15,ā which it released last Thursday (October 19). Using data from its National Crime Victimization Survey, the BJS puts a serious dent in race-baiting anti-crime arguments. The following three takeaways, among others, contradict the recurring claims about who actually assaults, murders or otherwise threatens White people:
1) White violent criminals disproportionately attack White victims.
āAmong White victims, a higher percentage of victimizations were committed by white offenders (57 percent) than offenders of any other race. White victims perceived the offender to be Black in 15 percent of violent victimizations and Hispanic in 11 percent.ā
2) White-on-White crime exceeds Latinx-on-Latinx crime rates, as well as those for crimes committed across races.
āDuring 2012-15, the rate of White-on-White violent crime (12.0 per 1,000 White persons) was about four times higher than Black-on-White violent crime (3.1 per 1,000). The rate of Black-on-Black violent crime (16.5 per 1,000 Black persons) was more than five times higher than White-on-Black violent crime (2.8 per 1,000). The rate of Hispanic-on-Hispanic violent crime (8.3 per 1,000 Hispanic persons) was about double the rate of White-on-Hispanic (4.1 per 1,000) and Black-on-Hispanic (4.2 per 1,000) violent crime. As with violent crime, the rates of serious violent crime and simple assault were higher for intraracial victimizations than interracial victimizations.ā
3) White offenders are the group most likely to assault Black strangers.
āThe percentage of violence committed against a Black victim by a white offender who was a stranger (50 percent) was higher than the percentage committed by a Black offender who was a stranger (38 percent).ā
Read the full report
here, and its summary
here.
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