A Blast From The Past - The More Things Change, The More They Remain The Same

* What was true in 1958

is still true today ! It's

just covered up by the

media now.

THE NEGRO CRIME

RATE: A FAILURE

IN INTEGRATION

Monday, Apr. 21, 1958

THEY are afraid to say so in public, but many of the North's big-city

mayors groan in private that their biggest and most worrisome

problem is the crime rate among Negroes.

In 1,551 U.S. cities, according to the FBI tally for 1956, Negroes, making

up 10% of the U.S. population, accounted for about 30% of all arrests, and

60% of the arrests for crimes involving violence or threat of bodily harm—

murder, non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated

assault. In one city after another, the figures—where they are not

hidden or suppressed by politicians—reveal a shocking pattern. Items:

New York (14% Negro). Of the prisoners confined in houses of detention

last year to await court disposition of their cases, 44% of the males and

65% of the females were Negroes.

Chicago (15% Negro). In 1956 twice as many Negroes as whites—1,366

to 679—were arrested on charges of murder, non-negligent manslaughter,

rape and robbery.

Detroit (25% Negro). Two out of three prisoners held in the Wayne County

jail are Negroes. Last month 62% of. the defendants presented for trial in

Recorder's Court were Negroes. Of last year's 25,216 arrests resulting in

prosecution, excluding traffic cases, Negroes accounted for 12,919.

Los Angeles (13% Negro). In 1956 Negroes accounted for 28% of all

arrests, and 48% of the arrests for homicide, rape, aggravated assault,

robbery, burglary, larceny and auto theft.

San Francisco (7% Negro). The victims in 896 of last year's 1,564

recorded robbery cases reported that the assailants were Negroes.

The same excuse they use 50 years later -

Negro leaders sometimes argue passionately that arrest

statistics wildly distort the comparative incidence of

crime among Negroes and whites because cops are more

likely to arrest Negroes for petty crimes or on mere

suspicion. Protests Executive Editor Charles Wartman of

Detroit's Michigan Chronicle, a Negro weekly: "The number

of Negroes booked is at least partially indicative of

subconscious if not conscious racial persecution on the

part of police officers."


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