Quote Originally Posted by Idaho View Post
So you are saying that the US has more blacks than the UK, so naturally has more murders? Nice!
I'm not prepared to speculate on the "whys", but the murder rate among our black population and among the UK's black population is many times higher than the white populations in their corresponding countries. In the US, the homicide rate by race of the perpetrator is over 7x higher for blacks than whites (24.7/100,000 vs 3.4/100,000). The US is about 66% white, the UK is about 85% white.

I didn't readily find the comparable rates in the UK, but I do see that Wikipedia says that blacks are only 2.7% of the general population (over 10) in the UK, but 13.7% of the prison population.

NOTE:
Correlation is not causation- and I'm not attempting to make any argument to that effect. The reason I bring these statistics up is to demonstrate that straight up homicide rate comparisons between relatively homogenous European countries and the more heterogeneous US population are not particularly meaningful.