wow - maybe by everyone pointing out that the original comment is a bit racist, is also a bit racist? If we dont make a big deal that apparently most muggers are young black males and just state facts (for example I have not heard recently of a young white male mugging someone in the area) then it wouldn't be racist. or sexist or ageist for that matter. From my point of view not all young black males are muggers and neither is all muggers working class (Chick). In answer to you original (pointless) question, Peckham (Rye) is a predominantly black poor area living next to a predominantly white richer area and therefore the law of averages means that muggers would be move likely to be black than to be white. But somewhere were the tables are turned the muggers would more likely to be white. Stop thinking to hard, stop going too deep in to things. When are we going to get to the stage where all the paper says in 'mugger' and we dont care what sex, age, race, class, shoe size, bra size they are!