I would guess that other posters are not saying that simply being nonwhite makes one violent. I infer from it that it may have more to do with the fact that fewer whites (compared to blacks or Hispanics) live in the desperately poor, damaged inner-city areas that (as was suggested earlier) may skew national crime rates.
I am not saying that your environment justifies violent crime. However, I would hesitate to accept a theory suggesting that social factors like poverty, joblessness, and so forth have no influence.
Again, I'm not a student of this, and this post may serve only to highlight my ignorance.
According to these same US crime stats, folks of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean background (NE Asian, in other words) have about half the crime rate of the white population. So it's not just a matter of being non-white.
A fresh-off-the-boat Chinese immigrant living in the squalor of San Francisco Chinatown ghetto has (if we oversimplify things by using the national average for the locales in question) 1/16-th the criminal propensity of the US-born black resident of Oakland. So it's not just a matter of poverty.
I grew up in SF and had friends living in Chinatown whom I visited regularly, and it is definitely a ghetto, plenty of poor people living in cramped apartments. But they are learning English, working hard, trying to make a good future for themselves in a new country. No issues whatever walking around there at night. Cops are not afraid of driving through Chinatown.
Now cross the Bay Bridge to Oaktown, yo, and see if you can take a nightly stroll through the projects without a police escort and a trauma plate. Despite being offered every kind of crutch -- affirmative action, scholarships -- people persist in their Third World lifestyle.
This dynamic -- the success and good citizenship on the part of NE Asian immigrants and the criminality and failure of black minorities -- is mirrored in other First World countries so blessed.
Taking a broader look, every place in post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa is a complete ****hole with staggering crime rates. After taking over what was in places decent infrastructure left by the Europeans, severe degradation and lawlessness invariably took over. There is no place in the world where blacks, whether as minorities additionally supported by affirmative-action-type programs or as self-governing nations additionally supported by US and EU aid, are succeeding.
So is everyone in the world racist, keeping the black man (but definitely not the yellow man) down, aid and affirmative action notwithstanding? Is it a reflection of white racism that, in crimes involving participants of different races, blacks are the perpetrators and whites the victims in the vast majority of cases? Yeah. And in the rare instances when whites victimize blacks, it's immediately a hate crime until proven otherwise.
On another tangent, in reply to one of the posters asking "what's with the shade of skin", it's got nothing to do with skin itself. It just happens to be one of many easily visible attributes that serve as good predictors of important social outcomes. Giant wheels on a Buick is an even better predictor, but you take what information is available at a given time.
Anyhow, I'm sorry to have drifted away from the original topic, but this is an important issue before our (fatally fragmented) nation. The demographics are getting worse with every year. The government will not stem the flood of illegals -- Republicans are selling out to employers wanting cheap labor, and Democrats are happy in the long term to have future generations of solid Democrat voters -- welfare for everyone, amigo! All the while the middle class is footing the bill...