A standout stat:
***Black Americans* make up roughly 13% of the U.S. population
but account for over half of all murder victims........and perpetrators.
This disparity has persisted for decades, though the violence is highly concentrated
in specific neighborhoods rather than being distributed across the entire population.
It’s young black men committing half the murders. I wouldn’t say 13%. Probably 4% committing half the murders.
Going to take a stab at sonething without any stats to back me up, but the 13% accounting for over 50% is much worse than that even appears.
My guess is that most of the perps and victims are black men which I believe make up around 6% of the population.
So the stat should read more like 6% of the population make up 50% of perps and victims, and of that 6% would guess the actual number of perps is closer to 1% with multiple crimes on their resumes
Going further out on the limb would also guess that murder stats are fudged to make them appear better than they are along with a judicial and political system that allows these repeat offenders to kill again
As noted by others here previously, when you take a closer look, the demographics are even uglier. The vast majority of incidents involve males, so reduce the 13% to perhaps 7%. Then narrow it further to include only younger (15 to 30?) cohort that commits most of the crimes, and you end up with maybe 3% of the population committing 50% of the violent crimes in our nation. The destruction of black families (all families, really) hasn’t worked out very well...