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Hispanic Homicide Rate 298 Percent Higher than Asian Rate

As the following chart shows, the Hispanic homicide rate is 298 percent higher than the Asian rate, a statistic that seems to support Donald Trump's claims about the dangers of illegal immigrants from Latin America and the need to build a wall and put thousands of border agents along the US-Mexico border.   On the other hand, as you will see, the situation isn't as brown and white as this seems to suggest.

Homicide Mortality Rates per 100,000, Hispanics, Asians, and Non-Hispanic Whites, 2000–2014

Crude
                rates, not age-adjusted. Source: Centers for Disease
                Control and Prevention, National Center for Health
                Statistics.C .     Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics.

Could the reason for the low rate of Asian homicides be that Asians have the highest rate of two-parent families among all the races?  Maybe having a responsible dad at home is the key to reducing murder rates.  Oops, it's not politically-correct to suggest this.  My apologies for my insensitivity.  I promise to go back to college for reeducation. 

Of course "Hispanic" is a catchall label that keeps us from knowing which nationality, race or ethnicity is the primary source of the problem.  Statistic don't seem to exist on how murder rates differ between immigrants from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, and other countries.  Nor do they seem to exist on how murder rates differ between black Hispanics, white Hispanics, Mestizo Hispanics, and Native-American Hispanics.   Without the ability to pinpoint the problem, it's impossible to know if a solution will work.  If, for example, Puerto Ricans have a high homicide rate, a wall won't keep them out, because they are citizens of the USA, due to Puerto Rico being an American territory.  

Interestingly, despite the influx of Hispanics, overall homicide rates have fallen in the USA to nearly the low level of the idyllic 1950s, as the chart below shows.  This fact runs counter to the conventional wisdom.  (Note how high the homicide rates were in the early 20th century, after the influx of Irish and Southern Europeans and during the crime wave caused by Prohibition.)

Homicide victimization rates, 1900–2013

Sources:
                For 1900â??1932, see Eckberg,

Trigger warning:  I'm going to be politically-incorrect again, by citing the fact that the black homicide rate has remained fairly constant since 1900, at seven to eight times the rate of the white homicide rate.  It would be instructive to know how the rate differs between native-born blacks, black immigrants from the Caribbean, and black immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa.  Good luck in trying to find those statistics.  Such comparisons could give us a clue as to whether the high rate of black homicides is due to the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow and poverty; or is it due to something else, something like the welfare state or the age of the black population.   

Age is key factor is homicide rates and crime in general.  The more young males in a population, the higher the crime rate.  And the more young males without a dad in their lives, the higher the crime rate still. 

Oops, there I go again.  I can't help myself.  My focus on facts has to be some sort of obsessive-compulsive disorder.  It makes me unable to see problems as black-and-white, which makes me totally unqualified to be a politician and unable to go to campaign rallies and cheer and swoon for demagogues and crooks.  I also enjoy reading long, thoughtful, fact-based articles like the one at the following link instead of getting dribs and drabs from talk-radio, the mainstream "See Spot Run" media, or from YouTube.  That makes me a total oddball, a skunk at parties, and un-American.  Clearly, I need psychiatric help.

http://www.city-journal.org/html/will-crime-spike-become-crime-boom-14710.html

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