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The statistics are right there, if you just know where to look. Pennsylvania is an 81 percent white state. Its population is 10 percent black.

The 2017 Pennsylvania Uniform Crime Report provides an interesting look at violent crime in the 81 percent white state.

Arrests There were 461 arrests in 2017 for murder offenses. This is a 14.4 percent increase from the 403 arrests the previous year. Persons arrested for murder offenses in 2017 were predominantly male (87.0 percent), Black (60.3 percent), and 25 years of age and older (59.4 percent).

Though blacks are 10 percent of the population, they represented 60 percent of the arrests for homicide in the state of Pennsylvania in 2017.

Per capita…

Despite being…