Race Related Crime Statistics

Asian gangs. Latino thugs. Blacks in drive-by shootings. South Asian drug criminals.

We see them all the time on TV. We read about them in the newspapers.

The politically correct would say that there should be no race related crime statistics kept.

The odd thing is that the debate about race related crime statistics seems to ignore something.

In 2002, Fortune Magazine published a story about white collar crime and named all the individuals involved. Recently the article has been updated by a new author. He identified 118 white collar criminals dated back about one generation. Astonishingly, 24 of them are self-identified as Jewish.

In fact, of 11 recent most serious financial scandals, an astonishing 40-50% of the participants can be identified as Jewish including Hank Greenberg from AIG, Bernie Madoff from his own company, Andrew Fastow from Enron, Samuel Waskel from ImClone, Gary Winnick from Global Crossing and Mark Swartz of Tyco. I will be easy on Greenberg because an argument can be made that, although a participant, there was no malfeasance on his behalf.

What is most interesting to me is that Jews have often claimed that they are poorly represented in the financial arena. Hmmmm....

The high percentage of Jews in the area of financial scandal represents the same high percentage of people of Jewish descent that have significant positive achievements in such areas as real estate, science and health.

Which leads me to suggest that if we do keep race related crime statistics, then we need to similarly keep track of race related positive achievements.

Or should we?

Frankly, I do not know.

All I know is that if we keep race related statistics for crime, we should include all races, and all crimes.