HustlerAggie said:
13% of the population commits 52% of the murders in the US. This is largely consistent among all crime committed, according to the FBI crime statistics.
What are the genetic, cultural, statistic, economic, and other reasons this might be happening?
I've actually seen this discussed by Coleman Hughes and others.
An interesting point he made was that historically this type of disparity is NOT uncommon. And it isn't so much any particular reason why - it is only somewhat related to culture. But what should be looked at it is how it was overcome in other cases.
Primarily it is overcome by economic opportunity.
The examples he used were for example in the 1800s the incidence of violent crime in this country was exceedingly high for Irish immigrants and their decedents compared to Scandinavian immigrants and other western Euro groups. Likewise Italians had their period as well. In those cases the disparity was as great of a difference as blacks compared to whites now.
But those groups overcame that and changed and adapted.
He isn't wrong about that - the question is how to achieve it. Culture takes a long time to change, and opportunity is also a long process it seems with other things holding blacks back - like the welfare state, poor education in urban areas, drugs, etc.