Posted on 12/29/2015 3:11:13 PM PST by RC one
INDIANAPOLIS -- One hundred and forty-four people have been murdered in Indianapolis this year – the city's deadliest on record. It's a milestone marked by the graves of victims who are disproportionately young, black and male.
Updated homicide numbers released Monday night by IMPD brought 2015's total above the previous record – 143 – set in 1998.
The rise in violence began in 2013 when, after a five-year stretch without more than 100 annual homicides, the city's murder rate jumped nearly 25% -- from 96 in 2012 to 126 in 2013.
The pattern continued in 2014, when 135 people were killed. Despite a lull during the first half of the year, it would also continue into 2015.
IMPD Chief Rick Hite said the violence was in a way evidence of the success of his department's strategy of busting up larger crime organizations.
When we take 120, 130 people off the street, that's going to leave a void, and for a period of time there's going to be an uptick in violence," Hite said. "Whenever you start a new project that happens, and we have to remind them crime goes up during that period of time."
Hite also attempted to reassure residents that violence came primarily for those involved in crime – a claim supported by statistics, but often unconvincing in the face of evidence of just how indiscriminate violence in the city could be.
Black men died violently at a rate of 4-to-1 compared to white men. More than five black men died for every black woman killed.
In a city where black men make up about 12.6 percent of the population, they accounted for 61 percent of all murder victims.
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The liberal bimbo on the Five was quick to point out tonight that you're more likely to be killed by a white man than a terrorist. I got news for you liberal bimbo, you are far more likely to be killed by a black man than by a white man and, considering the heinous nature of some of the recent black on white murders i.e. blacks torching whites, I think it's perfectly safe to say that a lot of the black on white crime is, in fact, terrorism. If white people were setting black people on fire, you know it would be.
Deaths of drug dealers,gang members,and other violent felons don’t count.As a matter of fact,society is better off.
A white person is far more likely to be murdered by another white person. But it’s far more likely a black will murder a white than a white will murder a black. About fifty times more likely.
Trying to catch up and surpass Chicago?
It definitely still counts for statistics and I don’t think Indianapolis or Chicago feels better off. Skyrocketing murder rates are not a sign of a healthy community.
At some point, won’t a city like that eventually run out of “Teens”?
BLACK LIVES MATTER! be sayin' 'SHHHHHHHHH. We wasn't talking about THOSE black lives.' Jus SHUT UP. We let YOU know when we be talkin' about which of those black lives matter.
Democrat-run city in a Democrat-run county in a Democrat-run state.
That’s exactly it. You are far more likely to be killed by a Democrat or by the product of a Democrat govt than by a conservative or a terrorist.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/12/29/amanda-blackburn-suspect/78023602/
Amanda Blackburn killing part of eight-day crime spree
Quick! The only possible answer is to disarm law-abiding suburbanites!
And they didn’t crash and burn at the Brickyard!
Indianapolis has a Democrat Mayor, but he is not to be confused with, say, the mayor of Baltimore. The overwhelming majority of cities, and the counties they are in are as you describe. However, Indiana is entirely red for congress except for the two districts that include Indianapolis and Gary (go figure). Indiana has one Repub senator and one Dem. The Governor is a Republican. The policies of IN are conservative for the most part.
You may want to do more research before offering up incorrect statements.
That’s because Obama’s feds aren’t prosecuting black felons for gun violations. If he did, he would get thousands of gangbangers off the streets and that would send a message to the “shorties” to not go down the same path.
And taking the guns from law abiding white people will fix that? Because we are the ones killing them, right?
Well, the Indianapolis 500 is a Dangerous Race.
Oh wait...
They also never mention that the higher the black population,the higher the crime rate. It was not this way 50 years ago.
It’s like they’re all wearing blinders.
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I’ve read that if the black murders and the black crime were omitted from the US statistics that the US would have the lowest murder and crime rate in the world. 12% of our population is committing >80% of the crime.
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