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There is no doubt that in the UK (and the US) the proportion of non-whites convicted of crimes is higher than the proportion of non-whites in society.
There is therefore statistical proof that a randomly selected black man is more likely to comit a crime than a randomly selected white man.
HOWEVER: Correlation is not causation.
It is also true that a randomly selected criminal will have had a poorer upbringing than a randomly selected non-criminal (or put another way: poor people are more likely to turn to crime than better off people).
What is further clear is that black people are more likely to be poor.
What is interesting is that if you take the statistics for crimes and normalise them for income levels, you find that any randomly selected poor person (regardless of race) has almost the same chance of becoming a criminal.
A further statistic of note is that if your grandparents were poor, you are more likely to be poor.
One could make various arguments from these factoids:
That blacks are poor because they're criminals.
That blacks are criminals because they're poor.
That blacks are criminals because their grandparents were poor.
The fact is that ew can prove little beyond the fact that if we can lift people out of poverty, we will have less crime.
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