For crimes committed in school or going to and coming from school.

Urbanity		Theft	 		Serious
White			67,000			7000
Black			59,000			8000

Household Income	Theft			Serious
$15,000-$24,000	65,000			9000
$35,000-$49,000	56,000			11,000
$75,000 - over		84,000			7000

What these Stats Say

White schools are not safer than Black schools according to the above stats. The myth of attending a white school because of them being safer is thus a lie. Also, for Blacks to be labeled as thieves and violent is an outright lie when there are just as many if not more thefts and violent crimes being committed by whites in suburban areas than in urban areas, where Blacks are more heavily concentrated.

Accordingly, based on the above stats, low-income families and residents - which are considered mostly Black - are not more violent or more prone to theft than families and residents of high-income status. These stereotypes have stigmatized Blacks the most because whites refuse to be of a "primitive" nature the way they label Blacks. From the stats, children of higher income families are more likely to steal than the children of lower-income families. Likewise, children of higher-income families are just as likely if not more to commit a violent act of aggression toward another child.

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