Let's go with your stats and compare. If NYC is 25% black, and Louisiana is 32% black...but the murder RATE in Louisiana is nearly double that of NYC, how exactly can you blame that on blacks?
What's more,
LA - which according to you is 9.8% black - has a HIGHER homicide rate than NYC, which has nearly three times as many blacks. Again, how exactly can you blame that on blacks? Seems to me that if you really want truth at all cost, then you need to look past the color of peoples' skin.
To give you better references, it's not easy to get absolutely up-to-date stats, but these should give you a very good approximation.
First:
Through Sunday, the city recorded 186 homicides and, based on its estimated population of 8.49 million, has a homicide rate of 2.2 killings for each 100,000 residents. During the 1990 peak homicide level of 2,245 killings, the homicide rate was 30.66 per 100,000.
Based on current homicide trends, NYPD officials think the city could record about 350 killings this year, a bit higher than last year's 333 but still at a rate of just over 4 per 100,000.
By comparison, other large U.S. cities are experiencing higher killing rates and in some cases, though they have fewer people than the Big Apple, are notching up more homicides. For instance, through July 12, Chicago, a city of 2.72 million with some recent high-profile shootings, has recorded 232 homicides this year, up 18 percent from a year ago. The Windy City's homicide rate is currently at 8.52.
Los Angeles, the nation's second most populous city with 3.92 million, has recorded 138 homicides through July 11, a drop of 2.8 percent from the same period in 2014. This has resulted in a homicide rate of 3.52 per 100,000 in Los Angeles.
Now compare that to
Louisiana's homicide rate for 2014 (from numbers compiled by the FBI Uniform Crime Report): 10.3 homicides per 100,000 residents.
Again:
NYC - about 4 per 100K
Chicago - about 8.52 per 100K
LA - about 3.52 per 100K
Louisiana - 10.3 per 100K
In other words,
you are more likely to be murdered in Louisiana than in Chicago...and more than twice as likely to be murdered in Louisiana than in either NYC or LA.
I was raised racist, guy...and it took me a long time to learn to look past the color of the skin, but at least now I truly understand that it has nothing to do with race itself, but everything to do with poverty, lack of opportunity, lack of education, and, yes, racism.
Can we expand this to look beyond 3 or 4 cities? Open to that?
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Here's a list of the 20 most violent cities in America, along with demographics:
(In order of most violent ranked at #1)
1. Detroit, MI- 83% black, 11% white, 6% Latino
2. Oakland, CA- 28% black, 26% white, 25% Latino
3. Flint, MI- 53% black, 41% white, 3% Latino
4. Memphis, TN- 63% black, 31% white, 5% latino
5. St Louis, MO- 49% black, 44% white, 3.5% latino
6. Cleveland, OH- 53% black, 33% white, 10% latino
7. Little Rock, AR- 42% black, 49% white, 5% latino
8. Baltimore, MD- 64% black, 28% white, 4% Latino
9. Milwaukee,WI- 40% black, 37% white, 17% Latino
10. Rockford, IL- 20% black, 58% white, 16% Latino
11. Birmingham, AL- 73% black, 22% white, 4% Latino
12. Atlanta, GA- 54% black, 36% white, 5.2% Latino
13. Washington DC- 51% black, 35% white, 10% Latino
14. Kansas City, MO
15. Newark, NJ- 52% black, 7% white, 34% Latino
16. Indianapolis, IN- 28% black, 59% white, 10% Hispanic
17. New Haven, CT- 35% black, 32% white, 27% Latino
18. Buffalo, NY- 39% black, 46% white, 11% Latino
19. Stockton, CA- 12% black, 37% white, 40% latino
20. Miami, FL- 19% black, 12% white, 70% Latino
Now here's a list of the 11 poorest cities in America-
11. Louisville Kentucky
10. Boston, Massachusetts
9. Indianapolis, Indiana
8. El Paso, Texas
7. Fresno, California
6. Baltimore, Maryland
5. Tucson, Arizona
4. Memphis, Tennessee
3. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1. Detroit, Michigan
5 cities from the "poor" list are also on the " most violent " list. Yet 5 cities aren't.
And here are the demographics of those cities:
Louisville KY- 72% white, 22% black, 2% Latino
Boston MA- 53% white, 24% black, 19% Latino
El Paso TX- 14% white, 3% black, 81% Latino
Fresno CA- 30% white, 8% black, 47% Latino
Tucson Arizona- 47% white, 5% black, 42% Latino
So poverty isn't the full story when it comes to violent crime. Some other contributing factor must be at work.