Posted on 02/19/2017 12:50:49 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Killings across the Richmond region soared in 2016 to the highest level in more than a decade, with African-Americans suffering the greatest loss of life at 81 percent of all victims.
Homicides in the regions four cities, three towns and 16 counties with a collective population of 1.26 million jumped 24 percent, from 98 in 2015 to 124 last year the highest tally since 2005, when 132 killings occurred, according to a Richmond Times-Dispatch analysis of regional homicide data.
The distressing loss of black lives continued at a disproportionately high pace in 2016, with 101 of the 124 victims, or 81.4 percent, identified as African-American.
Thats the second-highest percentage since at least 2010, when the newspaper began tracking the race of homicide victims and their assailants. The highest rate, 81.6 percent, was recorded in 2015.
The percentage of black victims leaped from 2014 to 2015 and dipped by only a fraction last year.
An interesting contrast exists between rates of intra-race violence, said criminologist William V. Pelfrey, an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth Universitys L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs. African-Americans are disproportionately represented well beyond their population numbers....
(Excerpt) Read more at richmond.com ...
But that Richmond nightclub was a place neither you, your friend nor his wife would ever step foot in.
Interestingly, the Times Dispatch has a fake news article announcing that 90 percent of the legislative aides at the General Assembly are white.
The real news story would be about how more than 90 percent of the murder victims and perpetrators are black, and the causes for that.
It is definitely a shared responsibility, however, being conservative it not the problem. These faux conservatives are just liars. THe problem is idealogical enslavement to big government by the MSM. Wake up America. Be a proud American, it is time to concentrate on the American people, not the self-serving politicians.
Drugs and violent gangs is not really much different than Prohibition in the 1930s when bootlegger gangs shot up their competition for turf and market share.
Stop making sense.
How about, "The percentage of African Americans of those killed rose because whites have increasingly avoided African Americans?"
Most of the problem with Virginia is those 3 blue NoVa counties right near Washington DC. If I was the Governor of Virginia, I would ask the legislature to gift Washington DC those liberal counties and remove them from the Commonwealth of Virginia. VA would go right back to being a solid GOP state again. Just like that. But yes, Richmond is very very liberal.
Of interest.
So, what percent of the killers were African-Americans?
“How will they blame this on white people?”
By only bemoaning “African-American” victims, and neglecting to mention the perps were also black, that’s how.
Just think what the numbers would be in the dark featured gentlemen knew how to shoot
Thanks, caught that after I posted.
There is always massive liberal arm twisting and cries of racism if you don’t tow the line and give away money to minorities much of it ending up in the Left’s pocket up in so I’ll give them MOST of the blame.
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