A reasoned response to Bill Bennet's racism

Bill Bennet clearly stated on the radio in an unscripted response to a caller that he believes Blacks are inherently more prone to be criminals than other races are.

Steven D. Levitt, one of the co-authors of Freakonomics, explains what facts and statistics tell us about the relationship of crime to race. His key statement is:

2) Race is not an important part of the abortion-crime argument that John Donohue and I have made in academic papers and that Dubner and I discuss in Freakonomics. It is true that, on average, crime involvement in the U.S. is higher among blacks than whites. Importantly, however, once you control for income, the likelihood of growing up in a female-headed household, having a teenage mother, and how urban the environment is, the importance of race disappears for all crimes except homicide. (The homicide gap is partly explained by crack markets). In other words, for most crimes a white person and a black person who grow up next door to each other with similar incomes and the same family structure would be predicted to have the same crime involvement.

Bill Bennett clearly believes otherwise. This belief is based on racism since there are NO rigorous and well-reviewed studies which have provided facts or statistics that back him up.