The single best source for interracial crime data is the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). NCVS findings are not biased by police or justice system “racism,” because they are a direct survey of crime victims.

The 2018 NCVS found approximately 608,000 crimes of interracial violence involving blacks and whites. Of this number, blacks were the aggressor in 90 percent of cases, and whites in just 10 percent. The odds of a black person attacking a white were 48 times greater than the odds of a white attacking a black. The odds of a Hispanic attacking a white were 6.5 times greater than the reverse. Asians commit crime at lower rates, but when they do commit interracial violence, they are 18 times more likely to attack a white than vice versa.

The rates of white victimization by people of other races are dramatic, but they should not be misinterpreted. They are high because whites rarely attack non-whites. Tables 12 and 13 of the 2018 NCVS report sex differences in violent crime. As expected, men were more violent than women, at a ratio of 4.5 to one. Both sexes attacked women more often than men. Women chose women as victims 61 percent of the time; men did so 51 percent of the time. A man was 5.8 times more likely to attack a woman than was a woman to attack a man.

As noted above, any given non-white was 6.8 times more likely to attack a white. Therefore, the odds of a non-white attacking a white are greater than the odds of a man attacking a woman.

The idea that whites are committing horrific violence against non-whites — especially blacks — is widespread. Collegiate School in New York City circulated a letter to staff and parents claiming that “white kids are being indoctrinated in black death” and that “black bodies drop like flies around us by violence at white hands.” Many whites even repeat the slogan, “White silence is violence.” As the NCVS makes clear, actual violence runs very much in the other direction.