New York City: The residents of the overwhelmingly black neighborhood of Brownsville in Brooklyn are nearly 30 times more likely to be murdered (28.9 per 100,000) than their counterparts in Manhattan’s overwhelmingly white Murray Hill section (0.7 per 100,000)

Similarly, the 23 per 100,000 homicide rate in Bedford-Stuyvesant compared to a 0.8 rate in Bay Ridge. Minorities in the Mott Haven, Morrisania and Hunts Point sections of the Bronx had homicide rates of 18.4, 17.6 and 15.3 per 100,000 respectively, compared to 1.0 in Borough Park and midtown Manhattan, and 1.1 per 100,000 in Greenwich Village and SoHo. The statistics reinforce what crime numbers have shown for decades: that blacks in this city were disproportionately the victims of violent crime, followed by Hispanics. Their assailants were disproportionally black and Hispanic too. In 2011, blacks and Hispanics represented 96% of shooting victims and 90% of murder victims.