> we have to ask whether black victims tend to be proportionately more violent or threatening than white victims ... another hard statistic to gather. A closel

> we have to ask whether black victims tend to be proportionately more violent or threatening than white victims ... another hard statistic to gather. A closely related statistic has been gathered, on violent crime perpetrators. By the police and FBI, as well as through victim surveys, that don't involve law enforcement, so are immune from bias due to over-policing that is frequently used to justify ignoring those statistics.