There's a cultural issue at the root of it. There are places with more racism, more inequality, and more absolute poverty with significantly less violence, and crime has gotten worse while we've made progress on civil rights issues and racism over the past 50 or 100 years. Popular culture within American ghettos glamorizes violence and crime. This is probably a very popular opinion in reality but vocalizing it is, ofcourse, social suicide. Having said that, I support the current riots as police brutality and institutionalized racism are severe problems that needs to be fixed.