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 ...
A black girl I went to college with years ago thought the best solution for rapist was piano wire. She had NOOOOOO use for them.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm
“In 2005, homicide victimization rates for blacks were 6 times higher than the rates for whites.”
“In 2005, offending rates for blacks were more than 7 times higher than the rates for whites.”
“Although slightly less true now than before, most murders are intraracial.”
Much more data at the link posted.
I noted that in my post.
My Bad!
45.4% of the Homicide victims are Black Americans.
51.2% of the perps are Black Americans.
Old stats from the '90's showed that the American "angry white male" is about as violent as the English or Belgian white male.
We'll starve!
/sarc.
What I’m curious about is the breakdown of the murderers based on race, regardless of their victim’s race.
From 1976-2005, 59.3% of all felony murders where the race of the perpetrator was known were commited by black offenders.
Trash comes in all colors, but the hip-hop thug culture has really overachieved.
I found this. It helps some.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/offenses/expanded_information/data/shrtable_03.html
This was the link it was from. It contains other breakdowns of offenders and various crimes.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/
Anybody have the stats on the races of the murderers??
The category ‘other’ is most likely Asian, Native American,Arab etc. combined. The only race categories delineated are black and white.
Check out the links in posts 51 and 52.
There’s some there but not very detailed.
“BUSH’S FAULT!”
I can kind of relate a little to being upset with at least our legal system. It seems there is some sort of tolerance for black on black crime. You can bet your dollar if white kids were killing each other at the rate black kids do, it would be called a national emergency. It’s fine to be conservative, I am, but you still got to be willing to call a spade a spade, even during the times when it is outside the status quo. I all for people being honest. I don’t like double standards either.
So you really do think it’s the presidents fault, it that your point?
The first city I googled had this to show for Detroit...
6 of the 10 most wanted was Hispanic... and really 6 out of 9 because OBL was listed.
The Crickets are screaming...
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/fugitives.htm
Camden had 2 out of 8 Hispanic..
http://www.co.camden.nj.us/sheriff/fugdomes.htm
St. Louis had 3 out of 10...
http://www.co.st-louis.mo.us/scripts/police/ten/index.cfm
Ping to post 58...
“So you really do think its the presidents fault, it that your point?”
I think rather then worrying about a bunch of people who shouldn’t even be here, these concerns should take a back seat to some of the more pressing concerns. It does disappoint me a little, because he has made the claim to care, yet he cares about some things I don’t think are real important, while ignoring real tragedies. Yes, I am a little disppionted, I can’t deny it, sorry. I can see why black people are a little pissed off. Their suffering in this area has been completely ignored, when it shouldn’t be. How dare Bush worry about people who shouldn’t even be hear when he ignores this glaring issue.
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