After years of bizarre ‘explanations’ of black crime levels, the truth of the problem is at last emerging.

I spent the years from 1977 to 1984 living just off Railton road – Brixton’s infamous Front Line. What I witnessed during those years was police racism on a grand scale, West Indian male chauvinism on an unbelievable scale – and a culture of loose families plus absent fathers leading directly to first street crime and then gang warfare.

The powers that be (and black Community leaders) insisted throughout that the obvious correlation between violent crime and ethnic background was – variously – institutional police and legal system racism, educational racism, economic racism and many other forms of ‘racism’, but never something that might be the responsibility of the West Indian community itself.

Now, according to the ONS, new data show that among those charged with street crimes, 54 per cent were black, for robbery 59 per cent, for gun crimes 67 per cent, and for rape 32%.

Just over 12 per cent of London’s 7.5 million population is black, so no matter how many forms of racism one might invent, the correlation is clear – and importantly, it does not exist as a syndrome among Indo-Pak, Chinese or East European populations in the UK.

Understandably, the Metropolitan Police declined to comment on the statistics: they have become so used to being the whipping boy in this debate, decades of post-rationalised liberal nonsense have made them forever wary of saying anything. You can see why they feel like this by reading the response of Richard Garside from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at King’s College London:

“Given Britain’s long history of racism and imperialism, it should not greatly surprise us that black and minority ethnic groups are disproportionately members of social classes that have tended to experience greater victimisation and to be the subject of police attention.”

Bollocks. The police/ONS figures also show that black men are also twice as likely to be victims: they were 30% of the male victims of gun crime and a quarter of the male victims of knife crime.

The BNP would make this a racial Untermenschen issue, but that’s an equal load of bollocks: the crime data show conclusively to any objective observer that this is a violent minority culture being as violent towards its own members as it is to whites.

For nearly twenty-five years now, I’ve been saying that this is not about racial defects or poverty or racism, but culture. As black politician Shaun Bailey opined last week,

“The black community has to look at itself and say that, at the end of the day, these figures suggest we are heavily – not casually – involved in violent crime. We are also involved in crime against ourselves – and we regularly attack each other.”

Correct.