Racial segregation in the United States

===Crime===
{{Main|Race and crime in the United States}}

One area where hypersegregation seems to have the greatest effect is in violence experienced by residents. The number of violent crimes in the U.S. in general has fallen. The number of murders in the U.S. fell 9% from the 1980s to the 1990s.<ref name="Getting Away with Murder">{{Cite journal| author = Douglas S. Massey| author-link = Douglas Massey|date=May 1995| title = Getting Away with Murder: Segregation and Violent Crime in Urban America| journal = [[University of Pennsylvania Law Review]]| volume = 143| issue = 5| pages = 1203–1232| jstor = 3312474| doi=10.2307/3312474| url = https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/penn_law_review/vol143/iss5/2}}</ref> Despite this number, the crime rates in the hypersegregated inner-cities of America continued to rise. As of 1993, young African American men are eleven times more likely to be shot to death and nine times more likely to be murdered than their white peers.<ref name="American Apartheid"/> Poverty, high unemployment, and broken families, all factors more prevalent in hypersegregated inner-cities, all contribute significantly to the unequal levels of violence experienced by African Americans. Research has proven that the more segregated the surrounding white suburban ring is, the rate of violent crime in the inner-city will rise, but, likewise, crime in the outer area will drop.<ref name="Getting Away with Murder"/>