Posted on 12/31/2022 10:47:46 AM PST by karpov
When homicides surged across America during the pandemic, murders of Black women and girls rose more dramatically than other groups. At the same time, the proportion of those killings solved by police fell faster than other demographics in nearly two dozen cities.
Some 2,077 Black women and girls were killed in 2021, a 51% increase over 2019 and the largest jump of any racial or gender group during that period, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Overall, the number of killings nationwide increased 34% during that time frame.
Meanwhile, the number of unsolved homicides of Black women and girls rose by 89% in 2020 and 2021 compared with 2018 and 2019, according to a survey of 21 U.S. cities by The Wall Street Journal. It was a far bigger increase than any other demographic group during this period, data provided by the cities show.
The numbers are confounding to law enforcement, criminologists and community groups, who said they have yet to gain a complete understanding of the disparities.
They pointed to several variables that might have contributed to the changes, including the overall rise in homicides of Black women and girls, staffing shortages in police departments and deepening distrust of police in some Black communities following the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
One factor, according to some in law enforcement: a shift in the types of homicide cases in which Black women and girls were victims. Police have typically solved more homicides of women than men. Killings of women often involve husbands, boyfriends or ex-partners, who are quickly identified. Men are more often killed in gang- and drug-related shootings or fights with strangers, cases that can be tougher to crack.
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Well at least there’s not as many police to harass criminals now. Good job, BLM.
Almost certainly black on black murder. If nobody snitches almost impossible to solve.
Results are not surprising.
Can’t have it both ways..or maybe dims can?
Defund police = Don’t solve crimes
Congatulations, black women defunders. You have succeeded.
I’m a white male, so I guess it’s my fault...
Homicide went up across board during the pandemic for all demographic subgroups.
But to the WSJ only blacks matter.
Isn’t everything? *Unless* you’re a white male who also identifies as either gay or trans, then you get a pass.
I identify as a meat popsicle...
“Victims’ families set out to find killers...”
I’m curious as to how they will do this. A good bet would be to create a discount, black P.I. firm in an area with a large number of unsolved homicides. There are already a number of private autopsy companies that will examine a body when the official examination didn’t happen or had unsatisfactory results.
Maybe even make it a trio company with a private security and bodyguard company.
“The numbers are confounding to law enforcement, criminologists and community groups”
But to anyone with an IQ above that of a root vegetable, most Black women are murdered by their boyfriends. You defund the cops, drive a lot of them to leave the profession, and make the ones who remain in the job afraid to say ‘Boo’ to a Black man, and what do think will be the result?
An old friend who’s now a retired cop once told me that within his department, unless the killer was caught red-handed, black-on-black homicides in the city’s core were written off as being not worth a serious investigation because nobody saw nuthin, nobody was gonna snitch on a brother to The Man, and NHI. No Humans Involved.
“The numbers are confounding to law enforcement, criminologists and community groups”
This is a blatant lie of the worst kind.
Law enforcement understands “why”? BLM
Criminologist understand why but could never admit it because they would lose all of their government grant funding and be attacked by the woke.
Community groups don’t care - it’s about politics not truth.
The corporate/fake news media doesn’t care. It’s not something that they can use to push their Black Lives Matter narrative.
When homicides surged across America during the pandemic, murders of Black women and girls rose more dramatically than other groups. At the same time, the proportion of those killings solved by police fell faster than other demographics in nearly two dozen cities.
Solving murder cases is racist anyway. :-P
deepening distrust of police in some Black communities following the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
Surprise, surprise, surprise. Reduce LE and the feral animals will run amok.
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