"I do think it is a problem but I do not think it can be used as an excuse."
See, when you talk about "excuses" what you're really trying to do is assign blame. I've never found blame to be very useful. I point out that strong correlation because if we're going to talk about solutions, that is part of solving the problem.
Unfortunately poverty leads to crime, which leads to police expecting crime, which leads to higher arrests, which leads to split families, which leads to poverty. It's a vicious cycle that needs to be broken, but I don't think you can do that by leaving poverty out of the equation.
"why don't whites in the same income bracket commit as many crimes?"
They are, that's what the correlation is. Not sure how the numbers work out exactly, but the correlation exists for all races.
I am not trying to "find blame" and I have said it is a problem but not the whole problem. we have already established that poverty adds to crime. we are not trying to leave it out of the conversation but you cannot keep using that as an excuse for why the numbers are so high when more white people are poor then black people. yet black people of a smaller number commit a higher rate of the crimes then the white majority of the same poverty level. you took a snip of my whole quote and then say " Not sure how the numbers work out exactly" but then say "but the correlation exists". if there are more white poor people then black poor people and black people commit more crime then the majority of poor people (whites) then the % of black crime is higher with in the same poverty level. so poverty cannot be the only reason. Or all the numbers would show it and we would all have a common crime rate across the board no matter of skin color. but we don't. this is why I say poverty is part of the problem but not an excuse for the differnce in stats.