There can be no doubt that crime among Negroes has sensibly increased in the last thirty years, and that there has appeared in the slums of great cities a distinct criminal class among the blacks.
Du Bois observes a significant increase in crime among Black people over the past three decades, noting the emergence of a distinct criminal class in urban slums.
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