&quot;People of any given race are much more likely to have a crime committed against them by someone of their own race, than by someone of any other race.&quot;<p>Is there a correction factor for housing and employment segregation?  The analysis seems to rely on a large municipal area with overlapping cultures rather than the usual situation on the ground which is highly segregated for a variety of socioeconomic reasons.<p>So given that, it is extremely likely that, say, home domestic disturbances or workplace violence will be extremely highly correlated with victim and attacker having same race.<p>However whats behaviorally relevant is the totally different statistics of &quot;I&#x27;m a X and I see a Y walking down a dark street toward me, how should I react based on X and Y crime statistics?&quot;<p>&quot;you must be 4 times more afraid everytime you see a&quot;<p>That whole clause is a statistical error as the odds of becoming a victim of a X have a lot more to do with the odds of a given X being a criminal, than they do with relative ratios of X on Y violence vs Y on X violence.  Outside of really weird situations like active race riots or race based protests or similar lawlessness.<p>There is the meta question of &quot;how do I need to signal to others in public to remain politically correct&quot; vs &quot;how do I actually need to act to survive&quot; and discouragingly that gulf has been widening over past years mostly by changes in required political signalling behavior despite a remarkable drop in actual crime rates.  Or at least reported crime rates.