Posted on 02/06/2012 3:30:33 PM PST by marktwain
(STATEWIDE) The homicide rate for African Americans in Wisconsin is almost five times the national rate. A new report using FBI statistics ranks Wisconsin in the top ten for the percentage of black murder victims.
The figures are from 2009. Of the 146 murders in the state that year 79 of the victims were black and most of them 66 were young black men. Most 60 percent knew their killer. Josh Sugarman heads the Washington, D.C. based Violence Policy Center that produced the report crunched the numbers and produced the ranking. He says gun control laws are the key to reducing the number of young black man being shot, "The state with the lowest gun death rates over all have far more comprehensive gun control laws, lower rates of gun ownership compared to states that have more lax or non-existent gun control laws and higher rates of gun ownership."
But Madison Police Chief Noble Wray says limiting access to guns is only part of the solution. He says young black men have become disillusioned with the criminal justice system and too many are involved in a violent subculture where guns are seen as the ultimate equalizer, "In the subculture is that opposed to getting into a confrontation and harming you I want to do the ultimate and we've got to move away from that and that is something that has to be addressed in a personal responsibility with African American males because they are killing each other."
Wray says his department is trying to do that through gang intervention techniques. He says the only good news is that the homicide rate is lower than it could be, thanks to advances in emergency health care technology that now saves many gunshot victims who would have died in the past.
Note that over half the murders in Wiscons are committed by and of black men (I would bet nearly all urban black men).
Take that violent urban subculture out, and Wisconsin has a typical european murder rate of about 1.5 per 100,000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
demographicly should be demographically
Now back to our regular line of ideology, which is that all cultures are equal and single motherhood is just peachy.
Clearly it’s the racist tea party, Republicans, and GWB’s fault.
Thanks for the post. I had no idea George Bush even had a home in Wisconsin. What about Dick Cheney?
This has always perplexed me a bit. If you interviewed those who commit the crimes they would say everything but mea culpa, and by proxy blame the white establishment.
Yet it is other blacks they take their murderous hatred out on.
African American males because they are killing each other
And the problem is?????
The “key” is to adopt the values of middle and upper middle class whites ( See Charles Murray).
** finish high school and go on to get an education or training that will earn a living
** get a job, go every day, be on time, and give a full-day’s effort
** get married before having children.
** stay married
** don't go to prison
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Blacks wonder why blacks are so disproportionately locked up in prison.
I guess they cannot read. Every black man convicted of murder and put in prison is another black man who will not kill another black man in their community.
Thy should be thankful instead of complaining.Of course it’s also another Grandson who cannot bring the money from drug sales home to Grandma or Momma, so maybe that gives them reason to complain.
Simple answer, they are in jail because they are guilty.
Blacks wonder why blacks are so disproportionately locked up in prison.
I guess they cannot read. Every black man convicted of murder and put in prison is another black man who will not kill another black man in their community.
They should be thankful instead of complaining.Of course it’s also another Grandson who cannot bring the money from drug sales home to Grandma or Momma, so maybe that gives them reason to complain.
Simple answer, they are in jail because they are guilty.
The Northside of Milwaukee is a free fire zone. The area is 99% Black. There have been 4 or 5 murders within 400 yards of where I was brought up in a fine middle class neighborhood.
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