If you believe the U.S. Department of Justice and the Census Bureau, blacks committed about 8.8 times more violent felonies per capita than non-Hispanic whites did over 1990-2002, and Hispanics committed about 6.5 times more. In 2006 the Bureau of Justice Statistics published a Special Report covering crime statistics over 1990-2002. Here are some of its conclusions. Forty-one percent of violent felons were black, non-Hispanic, 30% were Hispanic, and 26% were white, non-Hispanic. Blacks (46%) comprised a higher percentage of murderers than Hispanics (27%) or whites (23%). Whites(37%) and blacks(35%)accounted for higher percentages of rapists than Hispanics (23%). Blacks accounted for 54% of robbers, twice the percentage of Hispanics (27%)and about 3 times that of whites (17%). Blacks (39%) accounted for about two-fifths of those convicted of felony assault, compared to about a third who were Hispanic (32%), and a fourth who were white (26%). As of the 2000 U.S....(Read Full Post)