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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> I’m curious as to how they will do this.
Hire O.J. Simpson? Isn’t he still searching for the real killer of his estranged wife?
The only solution is for blacks to get back to rioting and looting and demand more defunding of police!
White 74 yr old female, mother of a MURDERED child. SURE AIN’T MY FAULT YOUR GOVERNMENT IS SOFT ON BLACK CRIMINALS!
Living 35 miles from #1 in crime black on black, Memphis 60% black, I don’t go there UNARMED!
Sorry to hear that. I’m outside Philly, so demographically similar.
I’m sure they’ll blame it on whitey, not on the black murderers that they bailed out or blocked from being arrested in the first place.
I was under the impression urban cops were instructed to basically serve the remaining tax base (the companies and/or individuals who pay for cops); if they ignored those, there would be no more cops. This is what happened in Camden NJ; now the county cops are responsible for policing the city. The private-sector companies and residents with money left, and the remaining gubmint pseudo-economy (a Rutgers campus, the state aquarium, the battleship New Jersey museum) don’t compensate for a real tax base (schools and hospitals provide almost 50% of the jobs there).
When there is no money to pay cops, there are no cops - now the rest of the county gets to provide a sort of peacekeeping force...
Ironically cutbacks to the police, especially black police, makes it much more likely for a black PI company to emerge.
One of the big requirements to get a PI license is three years of police type forensic work. But unless they do actual PI work, employees of a PI business do not have to be PIs themselves.
Typically around the US, most PIs work in divorce cases, so these would be more traditional PIs, with a network of informers, trying to catch murderers.
*Men are more often killed in gang- and drug-related shootings*
maybe it could be that more and more black women join gangs
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