Posted on 03/06/2016 12:58:22 PM PST by Kaslin
The Hoosier State may have some prominent sports franchises and the Indy 500, but it also has been declared as the state with the highest rate of black homicides. Of course, the gun control movement was quick to blame weak gun laws (via KPNX):
Indiana has the highest rate of black homicide victims in the country, according to a study conducted by the national nonprofit Violence Policy Center.Center has skewed data before, like their egregious study on so-called “concealed carry killers,” which lumped those with CCWs who were convicted of crimes, with those whose trials were pending. That’s not the same thing and was rightfully called out by the Crime Prevention Center’s John Lott as a shameful move to inflate the numbers. Like law enforcement, concealed carry holders are incredibly law-abiding; you have to be in order to obtain the permit itself. In some states, data on concealed carry holders abusing their license is often not reported anymore because it occurs so infrequently.
The study uses FBI homicide data to rank states according to their black homicide victimization rates. According to the study, there were 213 black homicide victims in Indiana in 2013, or 34.15 victims per 100,000 people.
That is double the national black homicide victimization rate and eight times the overall homicide rate nationwide, according to the center. Last year, the study found Indianapolis had the sixth-highest rate of black homicide victims in the country based on 2012 data.
The states with the second and third highest rates were Missouri and Michigan, respectively.
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Paul Helmke, director of the Civic Leaders Center at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, called the study "something that as a state we should be embarrassed by."
"Generally, I think it shows that we probably have too many gangs and too many drugs and too many guns in this state," Helmke said.
The study found that of the cases where a weapon could be identified, 90 percent of victims were shot and killed with a gun.
Helmke, the former president and CEO of the Brady Center and Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said weak gun laws might have an impact on such numbers.
I’ve heard there are lots of gangs in Gary, and also in Indianapolis. Apparently the crimes in those places are enough to tip the balance of the black homicide rate for the entire state.
It seems that Baltimore and DC would have a higher rate, but then they are not ‘states.’
And I don’t think very many people are shot with knives, but who knows.
This is hard to believe at first glance, that it passes even California in black homicides. So how many were killed by other black vs killed by whites? Those are the key stats.
Most of those murders are in larger cuties where Democrats rule. It seems to happen in more conservative States. Louisville has had an increase in black homicides itself and it always has a Democrat mayor.
“The study found that of the cases where a weapon could be identified, 90 percent of victims were shot and killed with a gun.”
Gunshot wounds: what the police call `clues’.
I can’t speak for Indy, but the majority of Obama kids that are caught dealing and having illegal weapons around Kokomo are from Chicago and Detroit.
I don’t know if Don’s Guns will beclosing since Davis died, but the 2 times I’ve been in that shop, I’ve watched what I’m sure were straw buys going down.
5’0”, 100 pound girl picking out a large frame handgun she can barely pick up and then showing it to the 6’5” black guy in thug garb with her, getting a nod from him and then her pulling out a wad of c-notes and doing the paperwork is kinda obvious
How many of the murder victims were democrat voters? We know the perps were dems.
Probably in or near Lake County Indiana...Gary and Hammond, Indiana....right next door to Chicago.
aka Handgun Control Inc.
Nonprofit does not mean unbiased and these people are the worst of the worst.
I remember when we drove in late August or early September 1966 from Upstate New York through Baltimore to get to Florida, where my husband's parents had moved a couple of years earlier. The impression I had of Baltimore was very negative. It looked very run down, and I was glad when we got to a different area.
Given how liberals love aborting black children I must ask them
AND WHY IS THIS A PROBLEM?
Indy’s only 45 minutes from me.
Remember `Henry Hill’ (Ray Liota) from the movie `Goodfellas’ where Henry is on the stand ratting out his crew, and he says, “I don’t vote, I don’t do anything of that.”
“For us to live any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good people who worked shitty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day, and worried about their bills, were dead. I mean, they were suckers. They had no balls. If we wanted something, we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again.”
These guys see themselves as gangsters, or `gangstas’.
As Chris Kyle’s Dad in the movie `American Sniper’ put it, there are three types of people in the world: wolves, sheepdogs and sheep.
I’ll refine it further. There are two types: those that vote and those that don’t.
I doubt these guys, perps or vics, voted.
How’s that for an answer?
Great, my daughter is just outside Kokomo. Now I have more to worry about.
I’m just outside it too, on the south side. Fortunately, my county is < 0.5% Holders people, so there’s really no problem.
95% of the problems are on the north side of town. One problem with having a large UAW workforce with those higher than average wages creates a big market for illegal drugs.
Actually, there’s more white trash meth heads busted here, but they are pretty much non-violent.
Cogent and prolly true.
Indy has more than their fair share. And the vast majority of the black on black crimes occur along or within a short hop of 38th Street.
Our daughter recently moved back to our home town, from Indy. They lived in Irvington, but that was just too close to the eastside for my comfort. The day they got out of there was one of the happiest of my life.
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