^^and there we have it^^
Loren, most crime in the US is committed by white males. That's one point.
The other is that crimes by persons of color are reported very prominently, ( and in my local paper, with photos I f the suspect is black, Hispanic or Asian) precisely to reinforce the misperception that POCs are criminal and to be feared.
Crime generally only makes the news when it's not routine, expected crime. This requires that the victim be someone that we do not expect to be a victim of that sort of crime, or else that the crime is very dramatic in nature.
Anyone can be the victim of property crime so it's rarely news. People from all classes use drugs, again, not news. Fraud also strikes across the spectrum, it's generally only news if it's quite large (for example, the local estate attorney who apparently made off with several million in client funds) or the target is somehow special (funds allocated for some specific purpose for children, for example.)
That basically leaves crimes of violence.
Most of these consist of criminals doing bad things to other criminals--not news.
There are also sex crimes--due to the stigma these generally are not reported unless someone high profile is involved.
This leaves a small subset of the original--and this last group has a far higher percentage of black perpetrators than the original.
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