Bc of poverty and structural racism that causes the concentration of poverty that leads to crime being a way to make a living when jobs aren’t paying enough, your community is completely disinvested, and education is failing...you can thank White flight in the 1950s for the utter lack of investment in Baltimore. The white parts get invested while majority black areas...you know...and the city happens to be majority black so...anyone with critical thinking skills knows there’s a link between poverty and crime lmao

First of all, that statement isn’t even factually accurate. Actually take a look at the racial demographics of the cities included.

Second of all, looking at cities is pretty arbitrary. If you look at a state level, a plurality (if not majority) of the most violent states actually have relatively low Black population..

Thirdly, in cases where a city is particularly violent AND the racial demographics are “primarily Black”, either by majority or plurality, these cities are often also relatively poor, so the primary analysis is actually more that “poor crowded people tend to experience/cause more crime”, and “Black people are disproportionately poor”, which isn’t really surprising. Sure, there might be other nuanced perspectives there, but these two are the elephants in the room.

Short answer: slavery/racism.

b/c we only look at certain crimes when identifying "dangerous neighborhoods." If we counted other things like domestic violence, child rape, and incest it'd likely equal out across all parts of a city. srsly.

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