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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“We need shafer bulleths.” — Joycelyn Elders
Funny.
Maybe all law enforcement can use blanks to sound scary but not harm anyone.
Like Alec Baldwin on a movie set.
Uh, maybe a bad example.
FBI stats
3% of population, Black males 14-35
commit 1/2 of all violent crimes, 1/2 of all murders.
Blacks committed 433,934 crimes against Whites
Whites committed 55,685 crimes against Blacks
“Thank God we got penitentiaries!” - Richard Pryor
Yeah. No problems.
LOL
I guess these “racist white supremists” talk blacks into shooting each other...
It is in the water.
American’s everywhere have learned to ignore the truth, and spout lies and slogans instead.
All blacks are learning is that they can get away with their ad behavior.
We have spent 60+ YEARS & over $27 Trillion raising a feral army of barbarians who hate us.
NO SYMPATHY in his household
How many of those Caucasians were killed by Blacks?
Its my fault for moving away from this crap because if I hadnt I probably be shooting blacks at a disproportionate rate.
No one in Minneapolis has the guts to publicly tell the whiners like Latrisha that they created and exacerbated their own problem.
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