DOJ: Blacks 7 Times More Likely To Commit Homicide
 

Long article, lots of graphics. I imagine these stats will get much worse as we head further into the economic mire.

Homicide trends in the U.S.
Trends by race
Racial differences exist, with blacks disproportionately represented among homicide victims and offenders
In 2005, homicide victimization rates for blacks were 6 times higher than the rates for whites.

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/vrace.png
To view data, click on the chart.

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/orace.png
For more information about racial patterns in violent victimization
see Key Facts at a Glance.

In 2005, offending rates for blacks were more than 7 times higher than the rates for whites.................

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm

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I'll bet if you were to match up the numbers with percentages of a particular race that lives in a densely populated urban area, you'd see a correlation. Blacks here, Latinos there, etc. Even Asians, who culturally have very strong taboos against shaming the family, when put in high-density environments (in America-this doesn't seem to happen in the "Old Country") will see an increase in gang/tong activities.

And as for victims? Whoever is closest. And since most races/cultures are clannish, you are more likely to victimize one of your own.

If you look at every wave of immigration through NYC through the 19th and 20th centuries, each group brought with them both great contributors to America, and great criminals.

This isn't a racial problem, although I can't exactly define what it is except to say that its population density/poverty/class/language/culture/predjudice driven.

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Those numbers are per 100,000 general population. I'd like to see the numbers as they relate to 100,000 broken down per race. I think you'd see that 7x jump dramatically.

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I've looked at these stats numerous times and never thought of that. I just assumed that did the stats based on 100,000 blacks and 100,000 whites. Why have these stats and then base them on the general population? Well regardless the stats speak for themselves.

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Adult black males make up 50% of the jail space in America even though only comprising 5% of the population. That means they commit 10X the crime of the average citizen.

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Alright, I'll bite........

Might as well be shot as a coyote as a sheep.

So, dear readers

Is this the result of a pervasive socio/political/economic

Prejudice and or Mandate,

Which has existed since Columbus brought along his

Personal African slave on one of his latter expeditions to the "New World"

Or, is it

Them thar Spooky Genetic Tendencies

What puts all them "People of Color"

In jail?

Enquiring minds want to know.............

By the way, I believe the Irish held that criminal distinction

In the early 1800's.

Same false reasoning, same false "justice."

A similar fate was wrought upon a great number

Of the people who came through Ellis Island later on.


scyth

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In the last few months , in the old black side of town, the cops are getting a bunch more calls than I have ever seen ,
ever!!

It is not only the blacks,

as things have gotten worse, in this area ,fights,theft, and other stuff has picked up , like never before.

But most of the trouble is in the black side of town.

Just saying..

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I agree 100%!
Not sure which ethnic group you were referring to, though.

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They Controlled for the wrong variable.

They should have Controled for Voteing for OBAMA

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

E-A

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Begin your life in the ghetto.
Your schools are underfunded, and the teachers are the bottom of the barrel as well. (The better ones don't want to be there.)
You have few opportunities in your area. Few job opportunities even a bus ride away.
You neighborhood is full of people making a fortune selling drugs. They are looked up to and even give money to local charities.
You may be one of the few who stay on the straight and narrow (called such for a reason.) Or more likely you end up in a brush with the law before you are 15 years old. (The police representation is probably 10 X what it is in more affluent neighborhoods.) This police record affects your chances of employment.
This problem existed before you were born, so many in your family have walked this path before. You see welfare recipients all around you. You don't even have a good role model to look up to.
The chance that you will end up breaking the law (and being caught) are so much greater from the outset, that it is a wonder if you don't spend time in jail.
This does not excuse you of committing crimes. But it may help others to understand the circumstances that have led you there.
And this doesn't mean this is a problem that the people from more affluent areas have to solve by throwing their money at it either. But you cannot take a group of people living in a crime ridden, poverty soaked neighborhood and use their crime statistics to compare to the rest of the population and declare that it is because they are one color or another. The black population of middle class and affluent suburbs is more in line with that of their white neighbors. The comparison is unfair.
It is also worth noting here that after WWII, white Americans moved from the cities to the suburbs, but blacks were segregated from those same suburbs. I am 49 (today) and I remember commercials decrying the racially motivated steering committees and segregation policies set up all around the country.
Focus on concentrations of people and poverty. You will see plenty enough connection there.

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This crime tends to follow "people of color" as they move into white neighborhoods. The predators follow their prey, thereby ruining another neighborhood.

And so on, and so on. Now they get help from the government to infiltrate formerly white areas.

Those are the facts, although it's not PC to say so. Oh well, it is what it is. I don't have an answer, other than to defend yourself.