Race and crime

Steve Sailer writes about the unwillingness of the mainstream media to deal with minority crime in the United States:

The ethnic gap in crime proclivities is one of those subjects that everybody accepts when discussing real estate (which is all about location, location, location), but nobody writes about.

To test this, I looked in the search engine of Slate.com, the pioneering public affairs webzine that combines a slightly snarky attitude with Establishment respectability. I checked to see how many of the thousands of articles it has published since 1996 include the words "race crime rate."

There was only one article with a strong match, but this 1999 essay was surprisingly blunt: "Janet Reno's Justice Department flatly states that 'blacks are 8 times more likely than whites to commit homicide.'"

"Wait a minute. This article seems strangely familiar," I thought. "Oh, of course, it's by … me."

And that may explain why I haven't been invited back to write for Slate since!

Sailer goes on to give an excellent analysis of the crime rates of blacks, whites and Hispanics in various parts of the United States.