Anecdotes again.

Let's see the big picture, shall we?

Although this isn't directly related to this crime, it applies to teens of different races:


You call this crime domestic violence, but it's more like attempted murder (or murder if one of the victims dies). Two things are apparent:

1. Culture DOES make a difference.
2. Including Hispanics with Whites in statistics tends to skew them heavily.

However, if we're talking purely of REPORTED domestic violence (which can include anything from denying access to a bank account to verbal insults), then domestic violence appears to occur at a similar rate for all races save for Native Americans, whose rate is a bit higher.

What happened on Hand Ave. is much more severe than a shouting match or a slap in the face.

I genuinely do not understand your point in quoting unrelated statistics and throwing out more of the culture/race cards. I cited a report which clearly focuses upon fatalities between family and non-family (which includes boyfriends and girlfriends) members. It's called intimate partner violence and it does NOT preclude attempted murder. The police have stated that this situation was a domestic issue between a boyfriend and a girlfriend.
The statistics you cited (without a source) would include situations, for example, where rival gang members or drug dealers get into a dispute and shoot each other. That is a whole different scenario. Further, you're citing statistics about teens, which neither the boyfriend (IIRC, he's 39) nor the victim (IIRC, she's 35) were. Quite frankly, you are stretching in your attempts to make this a race/culture issue.

I think the point that is trying to be made is that most of time- and especially so when speaking per capita- violent crimes tend to be committed by a certain segment of society and it ain't the honkies. I think the disconnect is that you are trying to prove family violence and the others are talking violence in general. I tend to agree that family violence can any which way, but general violence tends to be committed to by minorities. This is fairly obvious when you look at the number of minorities in prison and even worse per capita. Clearly there is a problem- be it culture, income, drugs or all of these and much more- in this demographic.

I said....this... which was ignored. I think sometimes people would rather argue and split hairs than discuss issues in a meaningful way:

Researchers have looked at what individual (e.g., impaired cognitive functioning, poor academic achievement), family (e.g., inadequate family coping and problem-solving skills) and environmental (e.g., deviant peers, poverty) factors or characteristics (risk factors) have been associated with an elevated chance of exhibiting violent behaviour in an effort to identify those children and youth most at-risk of being victimized or victimizing others (Tolan & Guerra, 1998; Williams, Guerra, & Elliott, 997). A complimentary approach has been to identify individual and social factors associated with a reduced risk for victimization or perpetration of violence (protective factors).

[This information comes from University research done in Canada but cites references from around the world and UN research. The world is getting smaller. At least the UN can pull together some resourceful ideas that countries have in common to face in the modern day]