what is acceptable, what is condoned and what is condemned. >> laura: i can't believe i'm saying this, but on that, he's right. of course policing and economic opportunity matter. they matter quite a bit, but are those the factors that are definitive? of course not. in 2017, the victims of homicide in chicago were 76% african-american. a disproportionate number of the assailants arrested were also black, primarily male. so what's the cause? if you ask a leftist or the intellectuals who dominate our universities, they will blame crime on institutional racism or maybe poverty, but as economist tom soul wrote just a few years ago after the ferguson riots, you cannot take any people of any color and exempt them from the requirements of civilization without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large. murder rates of among black males were going down, repeat,