Black/Latino Violence? Scholars find no clear trend

“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,” another researcher, UC Irvine assistant professor John R. Hipp, said of the study’s findings. “It’s far more common to see [violence] going on within 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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