&gt; There is clearly something interesting happening in the data - it&#x27;s very far from what you&#x27;d get by random chance. That seems to be worth studying, yet no one seems to be doing it.<p>I think there are fairly straightforward explanations, simply deducing from books I&#x27;ve read about urban crime... Most crime is intra-racial because it occurs between people who know each other or live near each other and tends to be concentrated in areas of poverty which tend to be demographically homogeneous. Overall, blacks commit crimes at higher rates than whites, which partially correlates with higher poverty rates, but it&#x27;s not distributed equally because it&#x27;s also highly concentrated among small numbers of urban street gangs&#x2F;groups who commit enormous amounts of crime (of which there&#x27;s no poor white rural counterpart). These groups are mostly surrounded by blacks, so most of their victims will be black, but there are enough whites near them that the whites who are victims of these groups contribute to the black-on-white numbers being higher. Part of the irrationality and bigotry comes from interpreting these numbers as some kind of targeting going on specifically to whites because there&#x27;s no reverse equivalent instead of understanding that it actually comes from an urban dynamic that overall causes black victims to suffer even more than whites.