I think that's a bit of a myth TBH.

Remember when some black kid going to see a white girl in Howard Beach was murdered by a pack of animals?

It was practically a modern day lynching.

Maybe they were safe from African-American crime and Latino-American crime because of racial antipathy, but let's face it it was open season for everyone else when it came to drugs etc..

But yeah, it probably wasn't a good idea for a black kid to rob an old Italian-American lady or sell drigs in a neighborhood where loads of mobsters reside.

It's just common sense.

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