Actually, rather than worry about racial proportions towards crime; I'm of the opinion that America needs to address crime as a whole. The same goes for economics; because money is- and always will be- the underlying reason behind most crime.
We must look at this like a row of dominoes. If you knock one down, the ones behind will start falling in order.
If you want to pin economic problems strictly to racial proportions; just how many Black CEO's of companies are bleeding their companies in such catastrophic manners as Whites? It's irrelevant; because its more important (at least to me) that it is the employees of those companies (Black, White, and others) that are being forced into dire straits. It is those dire straits that cause people (whomever) to start turning to crime.
That's just one example. Let's look at another. How many of these government bailouts of financial istitutions (Bear Stearns for one, National City for another; and more will be following) are Black or minority owned?
Now look at our housing crisis. What's the racial proportion between Blacks and Whites currently in foreclosure? Again; its irrelevant. Isn't it more important to attack the underlying problem first? It's more important that we start dealing with the underlying economic problems; and not worry about blaming any race for them!