Posted on 08/13/2022 2:07:21 PM PDT by grundle
The surge in gun crimes in Minneapolis is claiming Black victims at a vastly disproportionate rate to the city's demographics.
Last year, police counted one Black shooting victim for every 150 Black residents in Minneapolis, compared to one white victim for every 3,768 white residents, according to data presented to the City Council this week.
White people comprise about 60% of Minneapolis' population, versus 19% Black or African people, according to census data. Yet only 9% of shooting victims are white so far in 2022, compared to 83% Black, the data from Minneapolis police show. Two-thirds of the victims are also under the age of 31, and a majority of shootings occurred in specific "hotspot" areas in north and south Minneapolis.
The data highlight the compartmentalization of how and where violent crime is surging, and in turn how residents are living starkly different daily realities based on demographics, said City Council Member Latrisha Vetaw, chair of the committee on public safety, who is Black and resides in the Jordan/Willard-Hay area of the North Side.
"You live in fear because you know it's more likely to be you — because you know it's more than likely to be me than one of my white aides," said Vetaw in an interview this week. "It's real. I'm telling you, it is real. I have family members every day that I'm worried about."
Vetaw noted that the police data also found that 89% of shooters were Black in cases where race was known in 2022. "That makes sense that the violence is that bad, because these are underserved communities," said Vetaw. "There's work for us to do as a community."
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It is those White Supremist again.
Darn you whitey!
Someone look into this: Maybe the bullets are racist.
Somehow it must be attributable back to white taxpayers. They will continue to search to figure out how.
Something like 13% of the population responsible for something like 80% of the crimes and it’s racism?
Right.
Are those white racist teachers not teaching Stats 101 to blacks!
It’s not the gunfire that “claims the lives of Black victims.” It’s the Black shooter pulling the trigger who is claiming the lives and points for Black victims. Guns don’t get any points for anything they do.
I guess these “racist white supremists” talk blacks into shooting each other...
The only solution is for a lot more white people to start shooting a lot more white people.
But only in Minneapolis, of course.
/sarc
I forget, why is black capitalized?
Aren’t most guns designed and manufactured by white people? Unfortunately, I can see the woke crowd heading in that direction already.
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Joe’s is at a $20 Million dollar Mansion on an exclusive Island - paid for by someone else, of course.
Hint: Joe is now concerned only with Classified Docs enforcement
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Yes, they are...If handguns were designed by blacks, the grip would beside the receiver instead of under it...
Dem bullets be raciss.
Those damn honkey cops!
Signed,
The Overdosed Georgie F.
The story mentions the use of ‘Shotspotter’ technology to detect gunshots. They use similar equipment in Chicago.
In a perfect example of ‘liberal logic’ black ‘activists’ in Chicago are protesting the use of Shotspotter equipment. They claim the equipment detects more gunshots in black (and brown) neighborhoods vs mostly white neighborhoods. They claim the use of the equipment is therefore racist. And so it goes.
Because. black is a color, Black is a tribe, like the Black Irish. Oh, en iss raciss ifn you haveta aks. So, leave out. /s
Blacks approve of it. Why don’t you see the Black leaders (Sharpton, Jackson, Sean King, Rachel Dolezal, ESPN, etc.) complaining about it? They completely ignore it. Thirty black people shot in Chicago last week (committed by other blacks) and the media YAWNS!
The good news is: it’s a choice each individual makes to pull the trigger.
When blacks that are victimized have had enough, they will change things. Maybe this is already happening, hence the higher numbers.
I hope so. Nobody on earth shoukd have to put up with that. Mexico neither.
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