I apologize, I pasted something I'd written before and didn't edit enough. There was no reason to assume you were outraged and it was clearly my mistake. I agr

I apologize, I pasted something I'd written before and didn't edit enough. There was no reason to assume you were outraged and it was clearly my mistake. I agree that the data you outline would be useful to look at. I'm sure someone has done some analysis to arrive at an approximation. My guess is that it doesn't change much, though there will be neighborhoods where basically everyone you encounter is of the same race so race isn't informative (if the "cop walking the beat" example is the animating one). If I'm understanding you correctly, the basic thought is that economic circumstances might explain the difference in murder rates. They do not (i.e., there is a lot of evidence to suggest it is not causal), though obviously there is correlation. There are many chronically poor (or poorer-than-average, since no one in the U.S. is actually poor) populations that do not show significantly elevated rates of violent crimes.