DGS49
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We regularly have discussions about crime rates and victimization rates, comparing those for White people and the descendants of African slaves in the U.S.
In The Spectator World today, Heather McDonald has compiled some relevant figures that may be enlightening to those with an interest in the matter. They are not pretty.
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In Washington, DC, from 2019 to the end of 2020, black people made up nearly 97 percent of homicide suspects, according to the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform. White people accounted for 0.8 percent of homicide suspects. Black people are 46 percent of the DC population, white people 38 percent. The black homicide commission rate is roughly 99 times higher than the equivalent for white people. In Los Angeles in 2022, black people were more than 21 times as likely to be suspected of a violent crime as their white counterparts. They were nearly 37 times as likely to be the suspect in a robbery. Black New Yorkers were 46 times as likely to commit a shooting as white ones in 2023.
Data on the race of crime suspects is becoming harder and harder to obtain; at best, most departments provide only victim race data. But victim race is a decent proxy for suspect race, since, as the left likes to say (without understanding the implication), most crime is intraracial. (The predominance of intraracial crime does not mean that interracial crime is not also racially disproportionate. The Zarutska killing was typical. A black person is roughly 35 times as likely to commit an act of violence against a white person as the other way around, according to the National Academy of Sciences.)
From 2000 to 2019, nationally, black men between the ages of 15 and 24 died of homicide at a rate of 75 per 100,000, according to a study in JAMA Network Open. The white male homicide victimization rate in that age group was a little over four per 100,000, making the black homicide victimization rate 18 times greater.
A CDC study found that black people between the ages of ten and 24 died of gun homicide at nearly 25 times the rate of white people in that age cohort from 2020 to 2021. A JAMA Network Open research letter published in March 2023 found that black juveniles were shot at 100 times the rate of white juveniles in LA, New York, Chicago and Philadelphia in the post-George Floyd era.
Who is shooting and killing these black victims? Overwhelmingly, black perpetrators. Disparities in criminal victimization rates mirror disparities in criminal offending rates. [End of quote]
As a result of these facts, any campaign to fight violent urban crime will seem to be directed at Blacks, an appearance that race hustlers, White and Black alike, pounce on to peddle their nonsense about "endemic/systemic racism." One of our correspondents here constantly claims that White people commit more crimes than Black people - a factoid that he believes excuses the racial differences cited above. It doesn't.
Are Americans finally starting to catch on?
In The Spectator World today, Heather McDonald has compiled some relevant figures that may be enlightening to those with an interest in the matter. They are not pretty.
[Quote]
In Washington, DC, from 2019 to the end of 2020, black people made up nearly 97 percent of homicide suspects, according to the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform. White people accounted for 0.8 percent of homicide suspects. Black people are 46 percent of the DC population, white people 38 percent. The black homicide commission rate is roughly 99 times higher than the equivalent for white people. In Los Angeles in 2022, black people were more than 21 times as likely to be suspected of a violent crime as their white counterparts. They were nearly 37 times as likely to be the suspect in a robbery. Black New Yorkers were 46 times as likely to commit a shooting as white ones in 2023.
Data on the race of crime suspects is becoming harder and harder to obtain; at best, most departments provide only victim race data. But victim race is a decent proxy for suspect race, since, as the left likes to say (without understanding the implication), most crime is intraracial. (The predominance of intraracial crime does not mean that interracial crime is not also racially disproportionate. The Zarutska killing was typical. A black person is roughly 35 times as likely to commit an act of violence against a white person as the other way around, according to the National Academy of Sciences.)
From 2000 to 2019, nationally, black men between the ages of 15 and 24 died of homicide at a rate of 75 per 100,000, according to a study in JAMA Network Open. The white male homicide victimization rate in that age group was a little over four per 100,000, making the black homicide victimization rate 18 times greater.
A CDC study found that black people between the ages of ten and 24 died of gun homicide at nearly 25 times the rate of white people in that age cohort from 2020 to 2021. A JAMA Network Open research letter published in March 2023 found that black juveniles were shot at 100 times the rate of white juveniles in LA, New York, Chicago and Philadelphia in the post-George Floyd era.
Who is shooting and killing these black victims? Overwhelmingly, black perpetrators. Disparities in criminal victimization rates mirror disparities in criminal offending rates. [End of quote]
As a result of these facts, any campaign to fight violent urban crime will seem to be directed at Blacks, an appearance that race hustlers, White and Black alike, pounce on to peddle their nonsense about "endemic/systemic racism." One of our correspondents here constantly claims that White people commit more crimes than Black people - a factoid that he believes excuses the racial differences cited above. It doesn't.
Are Americans finally starting to catch on?
