04/05/2008
Chris Roach of Man-Sized Target finds a "Window To The Past" in the archives of Time Magazine. Specifically, in a story called Attack on Negro Crime, [February 11, 1957 ] which includes this 1957 statistical footnote:In 1,477 U.S. cities, Negroes, making up an average 11% of the population, accounted in 1955 for an average 35% of the arrests for what the FBI calls "major crimes" (homicide, rape, aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, theft), and 57% of the arrests for crimes involving violence or threat of bodily harm.A contemporary liberal, such as Eleanor Roosevelt, would have said that this all stemmed from lack of economic opportunity and discrimination, which was a real problem for blacks at the time. They would have said that if opportunities were available, and discrimination against blacks wasn’t a factor, then crime would go down. This turns out not to have been the case.
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