This answer is politically incorrect so I apologize for offending people and I doubt you will like my answer.
Blacks are more likely to commit a crime in many situations.
This is only my opinion and my reasoning sounds very odd, but I stand by it, good or bad.
It started with the end of slavery and the civil rights movements. Blacks were free, but they were still considered second and third class citizens. I the American South it was even worse where a black man could be killed for simply looking at a white woman in a manner that a group of white people would consider suggestive. This isn’t a guess or comparison, it is a cold hard fact and it is one reason why the KKK hung a black man. In the 1960s the blacks fought back with the civil rights movements and it was only after that that they won the real freedoms they had been promised.
The Civil Rights struggle took a long time and it cost many more lives than just those of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. It also took a lot of stubborn resistance and spawned groups like the Black Panthers. It also put forth an idea that if black people wanted something to happen then they had to fight for it; violence became part of the black culture.
The 1970s didn’t see things much better for blacks, they might have finally won their political freedoms, but it would take a while to win their social freedoms and most still haven’t won there economic freedoms. This created a lot of frustration and anger, which sometimes came out in violence. People have been robbing each other for millions of years, but in the 1970s it SEEMED that more blacks were robbing more and more whites. In some areas this was true, but only a few. However, the white population grabbed onto those issues and reported them making the problem seem to be a large one.
The disaster hit; the drug scene. Popular in the 1960s and before, the 1970s saw an explosion of drug use. The mafia tried to stay out of the drug business, but their mere existence showed that selling an illegal substance that has a high demand is a great way to make a living. Until then gangs were a local phenomena, starting in school they were originally just groups that organized to defend themselves. Of course the best defense is a good offense, and gangs knew this tactic very well. The drug market grew and someone had to fulfill that demand. Gangs saw this as a way to earn money and without the Mafia trying to do it the gangs had little resistance. Black gangs, Hispanic gangs and motorcycle gangs got involved. There were some white gangs, but except for the motorcycles the white gang was on its way out.
In the 1980s the drug market only grew, then the South Americans saw the profit that was to be had so they got into the distribution end of the trade. They clashed with gangs who already claimed that market; the result was a war, which is depicted in movies like Scareface. Of course the gangs were rivals to start with and when they started selling drugs they had money to buy weapons to fight with their rivals. In early gang history one or two guns were common to an entire gang, but soon the number of guns a gang owned out numbered the members of the gang itself. Drug profits made getting guns cheap in areas where the guns could be legally bought. In areas where the guns couldn’t be bought the gangs found a new market in gun dealing, which only increased the gang’s potential profit. By now white gangs, with a few exceptions, were very rare. Black and Hispanic gangs were growing though and becoming more violent, fueled by their drug sell profits and the increasing level of violence. As the gangs became more violent they met with stronger resistance from the police, which only increased the level of violence and the PERCEIVED level of gang violence. Whites were becoming paranoid about blacks and this was reflected in a continued tightening of the economic areas of society condemning blacks to lesser paying jobs. There were a few exceptions who made it in the corporate world, but those where the Donald Trumps of black society. The average blacks were poor and remained poor with few economic chances of improving themselves.
In the 1990s it only got worse. Gangs became more powerful and more and more of them formed. The largest minority were black people, so they formed the most gangs. Again the paranoid whites reported on this making the problem seem worse. By now the economic outlooks for blacks were still rare. As the cost of college mounted it became out of reach for most poor families, and most of those poor families were minorities. A few black children made it into college through high school sports and many black and poor families saw that as the ONLY way for their children to get into school. The crack down on drugs only increased, which just increased the violence. The so called War on Drugs became a war on minorities. The minorities were the most likely to be dealing drugs. The forces concentrated on the supply network and so got a lot of Hispanic distributors, but they also concentrated on neighborhoods where the drugs were sold. With most economic doors closed to them the black gangs were more likely to get involved in drugs to make a living. The increased law enforcement crack down with little attempt to control the users just increased the violence.
Riots happened before, but the riots in Watts were the ones that were more recent and so received more publicity. Then came the Rodney King affair, the man was black and guilty of committing crimes, but the police response was beyond excessive. Then a mostly white jury in Orange County let the police officers off, all who happened to be white. This enraged the black community who saw that when they let the system try to handle the problem, the system itself failed miserably. In other times something like this could have created a revolt. In California it created a riot. Only a small segment of the population rioted to protest the verdict, but a lot of criminals seeing a chance joined in to rob and loot. Then a lot of the original protesters who saw what was happening joined in as well. We will never know the percentages of who started as criminals and who were protesters, we only know the outcome and what was reported. Almost as famous as the event that started the riot was the event that happened at its height. The attack on the trucker; an innocent man who was in the wrong place at the wrong time who got stuck in the middle of the riot, pulled out of his truck and had his head smashed with a concrete block. Of all the scenes captured on film this was the one that received the most showing and it became an emblem of the riot in the eyes of many white people. It was a class struggle with blacks attacking poor innocent whites who had nothing to do with the problem. That was one of the problems the whites wanted to have nothing to do with the blacks except “control” them. The LA police department had orders to be hard and policies that let them be rough, but their officers routinely went above and beyond those policies, especially when blacks were involved.
Now the black people are no longer the major minority, the Hispanics are, but for the blacks very little has changed. They are allowed more into the white culture and economic system, but the vast majority of them are in the same situation they were in back in the 1980s. For these frustrated people violence was one of the few ways that they could express their anger and rage.
Now days a lot of black teenage males are running around with that anger, just waiting to burst forth. Attempts to improve their condition are equally frustrated. Many of them turn to illegal means and the lure of easy money always comes with someone who wants to take it, thus more violence.
2007-03-28 14:09:56
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answered by Dan S 7
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^^^I agree.
@THreadstarter
I doubt you're black but whatever.
It depends on a myriad of factors: The situation. The person. Their values. The crime, etc... Criminally activity has much to do with Class and Economics.
Crime is always found among the poorer classes and who is in the poorer class? Blacks and Latinoes. I've come some white ghettos and poor whites are every bit as uncultured as any minority in the ghetto.
I can tell you who is more likely to commit certain crimes, imo. That'd be more fun:
Chinese
Uh....
They---try to .....well the Koreans try to rip me off at the nail shop!
Indian
Uhh.....their foods pretty alright.
Hispanics
Rob convenience stores
Carjackings
Auto burglaries
Breaking and entering.
Gang-related violence
Assault
Drugdealing
Rape
Black people
Everything that spanish people minus gangs plus RIOTING.
White people
Road rage incidences
Rape
DUI's
Breaking and entering (house)
Rob banks and steal from Investors and companies
Shoot up schools, malls and public places
Bomb and invade countries
Erode the cultures of practically EVERY native civilization they've ever come into contact with.
Are usually serial killers
Are usually pedophiles.
Conclusion:
Koreans try to steal from me at the nail shop!
Indians...I have no comment. Maybe there aren't enough to commit crimes. Or not enough crime to go around.
Blacks and Latinos commit the most crimes.
White people commit the most heinous and devastating crimes.
See....when white people commit crimes they do it big. Whether they steal or kill it's usually on a grand scale.
They go all out.
Think about it.
Black people jack cars;White people jack countries!
They're the original OG's
They practically 'jacked' America from the Natives....
THAT'S the most most 'gangsta' move in history!!!!
lmbao.....
2007-03-28 13:43:03
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answered by Anonymous
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I believe it is all in how you think not what race you are. Or how your parents brought you up. My brother was in trouble all his life and my other siblings and I never got into any trouble. We all know right from wrong, how to get from point a to b with out committing a crime. But some choose to commit a crime thinking they will get ahead in the long run at a much faster pace. Then there are the ones who think they need to do it to survive.I would just like to add why does it matter what race this person is. They asked a simple question nothing racist in the question at all. But i must say this most of your answers to him have been racist so where do you get off calling him a racist?
2007-03-28 12:43:53
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answered by Anonymous
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Race doesn't make someone more likely to commit a crime, and there's something called racial profiling which makes minorities end up in jail more than whites.
However, if you want to hear some interesting info corporations commit crimes that cost the US $100 billion or more a year, whereas normal crimes that everyone wants to blame minorities for only cost our country $18 billion a year. Hmm, now who owns all those big corporations?
2007-03-28 12:52:18
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answered by Serenity 4
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Indian, mexican or black might be more likely to commit crimes of an economic nature because so many of them are low income, BUT the really horrible crimes like serial killers, child molestation, corporate theft, etc. are usually committed by the white male.
Chinese crime is usually against each other and doesn't impact society as a whole.
2007-03-28 12:42:01
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answered by Anonymous
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I'd have to say the human race. Most other living creatures live and let live and just do to survive.
I have to take a leap here and guess that it was necessary for you to represent in the most offensive stereotypical manner of a black male as possible based on your avatar name and this question. Congratulations. Way to represent BRO. NOT.
2007-03-28 12:42:32
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answered by sustasue 7
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I would have to say race doesn't matter as far as who is acting out criminally but it matters very much as to who gets caught. I think the police target minority groups, especially blacks and therefore there are more minorities in prison than white people. But it is rich white kids who buy the drugs yet they are not getting their cars searched because the police are not fixated on them.
2007-03-28 13:24:25
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answered by Anonymous
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I dont think colour creed or race makes any difference if you are going to commit a crime you will. I guess it depends on how desperate you can become. There is good and bad in all of us no matter who we are.
2007-03-28 12:41:16
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answered by Kaz 2
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The human race
2007-03-28 15:28:01
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answered by Anonymous
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In Canada it would be an Indian, they commit crime every day up here, our prisons are full of Indians, It costs this country millions to keep them, and it is such a waste of tax payers money.
2007-03-28 12:48:18
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answered by Anonymous
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I think you have the wrong idea, because criminals exist in all racial groups. Whites have blue collar and white collar crimes being committed all day everyday, blacks have crimes committed just the same, I don' understand your question, hopefully it's not fueled by anger?
2007-03-28 12:39:51
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answered by Marcus Ariel 2
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