Does it make ANY sense that there are more black males killed than white males given the population disparity? It's not "proximity" as the author says. It's cultural.
Does it make ANY sense that there are more black males killed than white males given the population disparity? It's not "proximity" as the author says. It's cultural.
Note that FBI statistics count Hispanics as white when they are perpetrators, but as Latinos when they are victims.
The numbers are actually worse than that.
Around 1990, the FBI decided to combine “whites” and “Hispanics” into one category.
The reason?
White and Hispanic crime rates are “approximately” the same, plus, many Hispanics call themselves white.
So, in spite of major violent crime activity by Hispanic gangs in California, New York City, and in many other major cities, ALL those crimes are attributed to “white” people!
Yep. I love to make the comparison between Boise, ID (my hometown), and Little Rock, AR (where I used to work). Both are comparable size, are state capitals, and have metro areas of roughly half a million.
But according to CityData.com, in 2011, there was one murder in Boise...ONE, and it was a strangulation (since I've been living here, the highest yearly murder rate was 10). In Little Rock, there were 37 murders in 2011. In fact, since I moved here in 2004, the year with the most murders was '07, during which there were 10. In Little Rock, the number was 51. In the 13 years between '99 and '11, there have been an average of 3.6 murders in Boise. In Little Rock, the average is 38.7/year.
Both metro areas are roughly the same size, and both have a so-called "gun culture"...so why the stark difference in murder rates? You said it...it's the "culture".
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