Between 19 April 1999 and 20 August 1999, I was unable to access the statistical information on the federal government's website that I used as part of the presentation on this web page. Apparently, the FBI changed their website, moving pages from one URL to another, and for one reason or another my browser was unable to make the new links work. For several months, I thought that the Justice Department had decided to discontinue public access to crime information documents such as Crime in the United States and the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports. Partly, I thought so because a liberal debate opponent of mine predicted that the FBI would take those documents offline because "racists" (like me) were "abusing" the information (with pages like this one). It was a prediction that seemed to come true. I suspected that the government had begun concealing crime information for political reasons, which would have been consistent with incidents in which law enforcement officers have been required to apologize or who have lost their jobs as the result of displaying excessive honesty in public on what the racial situation is with respect to crime in their jurisdictions.

But perhaps not. On 20 August 1999, I noticed that some of the race-related crime statistics had reappeared on the Bureau of Justice Statistics website at
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm.
(IMPORTANT NOTE: The "White" crime offenses cited on that page include offenses committed by Mestizo Hispanics, a group of non-Whites with a large presence in the United States. The actual difference between White and Black murder rates is greater than that page indicates.)

I wrote the BJS to commend them on publishing this information, such as it was, and I mentioned that it would be a good thing if they would provide even more detailed race-related crime information in an updated version of that page or on a separate page. I also told them that I had been unable to make the links to FBI crime statistical documents work. I received two replies in connection with the links that had not worked for me. First, someone at the BJS thanked me for pointing out the problem and that the links would be fixed soon. She also gave me a new URL for the page indexing the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports in Adobe Acrobat format. Secondly, I got another reply from the FBI from someone who told me that the links that had not worked for me did work for other people who tried them, suggesting that the problem was with my browser or with the version of Adobe Acrobat that I was using. (It must have been the browser because I'd have tried saving the files to disk for moving to another computer where I have Adobe Acrobat installed.)

Although it is good that the Bureau of Justice Statistics examines crime without a total aversion of racial factors, the BJS appears to be politically cautious about which facts are highlighted in its presentations. For example, this BJS page puts emphasis on the fact that most murders are intraracial (within the same race), and it avoids important facts concerning interracial murders. It is certainly worthwhile to observe that the average Black poses a far higher murder risk (about 16 times higher, in fact) to the average White than the reverse.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics has updated this page and prominently displays the words:

Racial differences exist, with blacks disproportionately represented among homicide victims and offenders. Blacks were 6 times more likely to be murdered than whites in 1998. Blacks were 7 times more likely than whites to commit homicide in 1998."

There is a bit of language bias in that summary: Blacks "are murdered" but they "commit homicide." Not every homicide is a murder, and yet this page is devoted to crime statistics, which means it should treat murders, not justifiable or accidental homicides. In fact, to be closer to reality, the BJS should have summarized what anybody can determine from Table 2.8 in Crime in the United States, 1998 — something like:

Blacks were 6 times more likely to be murdered than Whites in 1998, and 93% of the time the murderer of a Black was another Black.

This would reduce the chance that someone, intentionally or not, and despite the bold admission "Racial differences exist," would use the BJS page as a source of support for an erroneous demonstration that Blacks and Whites were at some sort of parity in the interracial violence department. The BJS could also improve the second half of its summary by saying

Blacks were 7 times more likely than Whites to commit murder in 1998. Blacks were 14 times more likely to murder Whites than the reverse, in 1998.

Saying it that way (i.e., with more completeness) avoids the chance that somebody will read casually and come away with the erroneous impression that Whites and Blacks were equally vicious toward each other. They're not. The average Black poses a far greater risk to the average White than the other way around. And the BJS should say so. Blacks tend to kill a lot, and when Whites live among Blacks, some of this Black murdering spills over to them. Ergo, Whites should not live among Blacks. Therefore, smart Whites don't live among Blacks. Hence, smart liberal Whites are hypocrites.

The graph near the middle of the page, captioned "Homicides by race of offender and victim, 1976-98," contains a history of murder percentages, resolved by race, but not adjusted for the size of the population of the perpetrator's race. It should be. Criminologists trying to find significance in crime rate trends within various geographic regions know better than to leave the crime totals unadjusted for the size of the regions' populations. California has more residents than Idaho does, and it would be natural for California to have the greater number of crimes. But when the number of crimes is divided by the number of people eligible to be committing them, and when there remains a significant difference in the per capita crime rates, then perhaps some important reason exists to explain it. For the same reason, the lines on that graph should each be divided by the size of the (US) population of the perpetrator's race. Presenting the murder history graph this way would give US citizens a better feel for the threat that a typical member of each race poses to themselves.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics appears to have someone working for it who is struggling to present at least part of the racial facts despite political pressure to keep the lid on it. Maybe the government still has a few honest, courageous statisticians. Or maybe they just don't like getting upstaged because I post more race-related crime information than they do. They can have the spotlight back whenever they want — just post more BJS data in a way that will be optimally helpful and relevant to the majority of Americans, without hedging on the racial issues for political reasons.

While corresponding with Justice Department employees David Levin and Marianne Zawitz, I learned that

Federal statistical standards classify races as American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Black or African American, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and White. White is defined as a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. Ethnicity is defined separately. These standards are used by all Federal statistical data collections.

Well, actually, the Census Bureau keeps a record of how many of their "Whites" are also Hispanics. (However, even the Census Bureau will tell you that Hispanics may be of any race. The word "may" is key. The fact is that the large majority of Hispanics in the United States are Mestizos. They do not belong to the same race as the White people who descend from the native peoples of Europe.) But the Justice Department doesn't keep a record of which or how many of the "White" crime offenders are Aryans, how many are Mestizos, how many are Arabs, how many are Turks, and how many are Jews. They're all lumped together.

Interestingly, though, the government does set aside a special racial category for Alaska Natives. The name is awkward. The brother of an Alaska Native, living in Canada, doesn't acquire a different race simply because of where he lives. If "Alaska Native" designates a race, then there may exist Alaska Natives who are not native to Alaska. It's best to avoid that kind of semantic oddity. The government should use a term that references biology, rather than geography.

Although the choice of terms could be better, giving Alaska Natives their own racial category was a good idea. You have to wonder why it was not done with "Whites." The good reasons that prompted the segregation of the case of Alaska Natives weren't thought of, or more likely weren't applied, in the case of "Whites." Why not? It makes no more sense to lump Aryans, Semites, Turks, and Mestizos together as it would to lump Eskimos with Asians. But whereas the DoJ didn't make the latter classification error, it routinely makes the former one. When you complain about it to Justice Department officials, you get replies that say, more or less, "Well that's just how things are."

It's "just how things are" that the Justice Department uses the "White" racial classification as its miscellaneous bin. And the frequent absence of any warning sign advising users of government crime statistics that this racial-lumping has been done is bound to mislead at least a few of the more naive researchers and provide grist for the mills of those who practice deliberate racial deceptions. Besides that, doesn't it sound suggestive of what White nationalists have been warning about: that the government, controlled by Jews, has a policy of miscegenating the White race out of existence, just as it has already deprived the White race of separate representation in its statistical methods.