Posted on 08/09/2007 6:23:53 PM PDT by ricks_place
African-Americans are victims of nearly half the murders committed in the United States despite making up only 13 percent of the population, a report published Thursday showed.
Around 8,000 of nearly 16,500 murder victims in 2005, or 49 percent, were black Americans, according to the report released by the statistics bureau of the Department of Justice.
Broken down by gender, 6,800 black men were murdered in 2005, making up more than half the nearly 13,000 male murder victims.
Black women made up 35 percent, or 1,200, of the nearly 3,500 female homicide victims.
Young black men aged between 17 and 29 bore a disproportionately high burden in the grim statistics, making up 51 percent of African-American murder victims.
The percentage of white male murder victims in the same age group was 37 percent.
More than half the murders of blacks took place in densely populated urban areas.
Firearms were involved 77 percent of the time in homicides involving black people and around 60 percent of the time in murders of whites.
Most murder victims -- 93 percent of blacks and 85 percent of whites -- were killed by someone of their own race.
Gang violence was involved in around five percent of homicides with black victims against seven percent for white victims.
In percentage terms, whites were twice as likely to be killed by a current or former partner than blacks -- 12 percent of whites were murdered by a life partner against six percent of blacks.
Blacks were also at greater risk of rape or sexual assault than any other ethnic group except American Indians, the report showed.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
(just kidding on the last one)
(not really)
Exactamento
susie
Because Gonzales is Hispanic, and revealing the real numbers would reveal what a huge number of Hispanic thugs we have in this country? Just a guess . . .
Black Murderers = 8,000 * 0.93 + 8,500 * 0.15 = 8,715
White Murderers = 8,500 * 0.85 + 8,000 * 0.07 = 7,785
This is assuming each murderer only killed one victim which isn’t likely meaning there are really fewer murderers than there are victims which can’t be computed from this information provided. “White” and “black” aren’t really defined either...
Given the above assumption, 52.82% of all murders in 2005 were committed by blacks even though they represent 13% of the population.
Assuming 300,000,000 people in the US, 1 out of every 4,475 blacks in the US murdered somebody in 2005. 1 out of every 33,526 whites in the US murdered somebody in 2005. Therefore a black person is 7.492 times more likely to murder someone than a white. Assuming I did my math right and the information in the article is correct...
And a generic cordiality to you, too.
I think we have one of the lowest crime rates in America as a result.
DC, though, is just across the river ~ 5 miles from my house. Now they got some crime Fur Shur.
What you seem to have missed is that Hispanic (and black) criminals are classed as black, while Hispanic (and white) criminals are classed as white.
There are enough hispanic criminals in this country that by backing them out of these numbers and reporting them as hispanic, it's going to change the black and white numbers dramatically.
BTW, hispanics are rapidly catching up with blacks when it comes to imprisonment. You'll find that most of the numbers on imprisonment are 3 to 5 years out of date.
We had a thread here several months back that discussed the fact that hispanic gangs seem to be targeting non gang blacks for crimes of violence for the purpose of intimidating blacks into abandoning their neighborhoods. The hispanic gangs then take over and usher in their compatriots whom they then rob on a regular and recurring basis.
Some interesting clips Show world
Naw! You think? He wouldn’t do that would he? Certainly Chucky Schumer would have complained about it by now. Or is he in on the secret too.
Much of this can be laid on the steps of Johnsons Great Society.
Kids raised by kids with no fathers in the picture.
What percentage of murders are carried out by blacks? About half?
Read #24.
I bet the author would be happy if they were white.
Yes, thanks, and good work. It seems my guess was pretty close.
The hispanics have to be separately identified first.
The hispanics have to be separately identified first.
Huh?
Yes, hispanics are ALSO classified as “white” or “black”. They are not separately reported. Instead, white hispanic criminals are categorized as “white” in this data. That obscures their contribution to America’s murders.
Good points but I prefer to remain color blind. I think (after raising the bar for conviction) that rapists should be crucified or impaled. Done properly, death takes about 3 days. Done consistently, rapes will drop by about 80% in six months. The rate would be higher for other crimes meriting death like child molestation, murder, armed robbery, kidnapping, etc. I’m willing to throw in DUI also.
I’m not writing this for comic effect. The never ending suffering and expense we tolerate in the name of being “compassionate” is sickening.
A 13% minority, black men account for 45% of homicides. There is a segment of black men that are criminal and severely disturbed out of proportion to the general population. Address this and the US will be a much safer society for decent people.
Percent distribution of single-offender Homicides based on race of victims and perceived race of offender
| Victim's Race | Victim Count | %Total Count | White Offender | Black Offender | Other Offender |
| White only | 5,720 | 53.7% | 44.6% | 8.8% | 0.3% |
| Black only | 4,838 | 45.4% | 3.2% | 42.2% | 0.0% |
| Other | 102 | 0.9% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.5% |
And what’s percentage of murder is done by blacks and what about hispanics, whites, and other misc minorities?
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