> **The Verdict** > ... > Higher poverty rates among various urban black communities might explain the difference in crime rates, although the evidence is mixed. Crikey!, that's a lot of squirming for one sentence. Not sure it would be possible to mix evidence so much that it turns to the opposite of what it was. Poverty rates don't matter, relative poverty rates (gini coeficient) has some effect, but poor whites still commit less crime than rich blacks.