Hilarious how the media spins this: "
Police hold black men responsible for more than two-thirds of shootings and more than half of robberies and street crimes". The police are the real problem.... lol
Black men 'to blame for most violent city crime'... but they're also the victimsBy Rebecca Camber
Updated: 14:07 EST, 27 June 2010
The majority of violent inner-city crime is committed by black men, police figures suggest.
But the statistics also show that black men are twice as likely to be victims of such crimes.
Police hold black men responsible for more than two-thirds of shootings and more than half of robberies and street crimes in London, according to figures released by Scotland Yard.
The statistics released under Freedom of Information laws have provoked a debate about the racial make-up of violent crime in the capital.
The data, which provides the ethnicity of the 18,091 men and boys who police took action against in London during 2009-10, looked at both violent and sexual offences.
It found that 67 per cent of those caught by police for gun crimes were black.
Among those proceeded against for street crimes, including muggings, assault with intent to rob and snatching property, 54 per cent were black males.
Richard Garside, of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at King's College London, said: 'Given Britain's long history of racism and imperialism it should not greatly surprise us that black and minority ethnic groups are disproportionately members of social classes that have tended to experience greater victimisation and to be the subject of police attention.'Just because the police treat black men as more criminal than white men, it does not mean that they are.'read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1290047/Metropolitan-Police-crime-statistics-reveal-violent-criminals-black--victims.html