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But my claim was not that I know the causes of the higher Black crime rate, but rather that because of this higher crime rates, some White people have become fearful of Blacks. This would be the case regardless of the underlying causes.

Also [0] is only able to explain half of the crime gap through "structural characteristics". Of course this article would be considered extremely racist by many people in this thread (not you) since it assumes the crime gap reflects actual higher rates of criminal behavior, and not just bias in the justice system.

[0] http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~roos/Courses/grstat502/phillipss...



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