Statistics The source for proposed addition to this section is 320 William Wilbanks Frequency and Nature of Interracial Crimes submitted for publication to the Justice Professional November 7 1990 Data derived from Department of Justice Criminal Victimization in the United States 1987 p 53 PROPOSED ADDITION Because interracial rape is now overwhelmingly black on white it has become difficult to do research on it or to find relevant statistics The FBI keeps very detailed national records on crime but the way it presents rape data obscures the racial element rather than clarifies it Dr William Wilbanks a criminologist at Florida International University had to sift carefully through the data to find that in 1988 there were 9 406 cases of black on white rape and fewer than ten cases of white on black rape 320