The statistics are right there, if you just know where to look. Arizona is a 54 percent white state. Its population is 5 percent black.

The 2017 Arizona Uniform Crime Report provides an interesting look at violent crime in the 54 percent white state.

There were 266 arrests for homicide in the state in 2017. Blacks, despite being only five percent of the population of Arizona, represented 26.3 percent of those arrested for homicide.

Whites represented roughly 33 percent of those arrested for homicide, with Hispanics accounting for 35.3 percent of those arrested (American Indian/Alaskan Native represented 6 percent of those arrested).

Per capita…

This means blacks were 8.5 times more likely than whites to be arrested for homicide in the state of Arizona in 2017.