I will give you the benefit of the doubt on how racially charged that statement might be and simply point out that we have no idea what the true crime rates are

I will give you the benefit of the doubt on how racially charged that statement might be and simply point out that we have no idea what the true crime rates are by race. We only have arrest, charge, and conviction rates. Those all start with the police. A bias in laws (e.g. crack vs cocaine laws), law enforcement (e.g. more cops deployed in black neighborhoods), or police behavior (e.g. more leniency given to white people) would all lead to those numbers being artificially high for the black community.