The author claims a large amount of the difference is explained by family structure. I'm inclined to agree, and I wish our leaders touched on this more often. You can't welfare or police your way out of a failed subculture where kids aren't raised to respect life and property, or themselves for that matter.
>Classism is the issue.
Crime does correlate somewhat with income, but racial differences in rates of violent crime are poorly explained by income level. Page 93, Table 6:
https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/epr/9...
And here, see "Analysis of the Combined Data" and the conclusion section:
https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2015/11/16/racial-differe...
The author claims a large amount of the difference is explained by family structure. I'm inclined to agree, and I wish our leaders touched on this more often. You can't welfare or police your way out of a failed subculture where kids aren't raised to respect life and property, or themselves for that matter.