I have always said that all the reports about a growing race war between Blacks and Hispanics in the LA area were overblown. The following article arrives at the same conclusion.
(latimes.com) “LAPD is not on the brink,” of a major inter-racial crime wave, three University of California Irvine scholars have concluded after examining assault, robbery and homicide data in the city’s southern police precincts.
The researchers said that, although some cross-racial crimes involving blacks and Latinos have been “sensationalized,” the numbers suggest that offenders preying on people of their own race is a much bigger problem, and should remain the focus of police attention.
“It sort of goes against the more spectacular stories that have been dramatized in the media,” one of the researchers, UC Irvine assistant professor John R. Hipp, said of the study’s findings. “It’s far more common to see [violence] going on between groups. We don’t see any real trend here.”
The study by Hipp and fellow UC Irvine criminologists George E. Tita and Lindsay N. Boggess compared aggravated assault, robbery and homicide cases between 2000 and 2006 in the four precincts of LAPD’s South Bureau against 2000 Census data. It found that black offenders were nearly eight times more likely to kill another black person as to kill a Latino, and Latino offenders were nearly twice as likely to kill another Latino as a black person.
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The Homicide Report made a similar finding about black/Latino murder earlier this year after examining 236 homicide cases in three South Bureau precincts and one Central Bureau precinct last year. Just 22 of those homicides crossed racial lines.
The study also echoes what many people in South Bureau law enforcement have said for some time: That racially-motivated violence between blacks and Latinos occurs occasionally, but tends to be overplayed by the media. (more…)
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