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>>5392340
Thanks for the source. So what this tells us is that poor blacks are more likely to live in central city Washington than poor whites. Now (and this is not a very smart thing to do) let's just apply that statistic across the board: let's say that poor blacks in general are 4 times more likely to live in the urban environment than poor whites in every single city in America. So that would mean that 80% of poor blacks live in the city (compared to 20%) of poor whites.

80% * 27.6% * 13% = ~3% of the population
20% * 12.8% * 75% = ~2% of the population

There it is. After several sweeping assumptions, incorrect application of data, and for the purposes of crime lumping all hispanics into the category of "white" we finally have a result that equalizes the crime committed between between blacks and whites. That was an incredible series of mental gymnastics, but to be honest, even with all the improper application of data (applying one city to the rest of the nation), the sweeping generalizations, and the out of date statistics (the study for D.C. being done in 1990), I honestly expected blacks to still end up committing more crime.

That was a fun exercise though, thanks for the discussion!