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Racial Distribution of Violent Crime Perpetrators in 2018

The distribution of violent crime perpetrators by race in the United States, based on data from the National Crime Victimization Survey and arrest statistics.

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Jan 13, 2026
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What percentage of violent crimes in Us are white and black

Two different government data streams give different lenses: victim‑based surveys (NCVS) found that in 2018 about 52% of violent‑crime perpetrators were identified as White and about 29% as Black, whi...