"Young black men murder 14 times more than young white men."
The author of this Kanaas City Star article obviously didn't dig very deep.
I don’t think there’s ever been an expectation that journalist = deep thinker, except among themselves. As others have noted in the thread, anybody who has spent more than 15 minutes in the KC Metro knows the exact reason, as contained the Time article you linked and quoted. It’s not rocket surgery, as they say...