(January 5, 2013 at 7:44 am)TheSteelGeneral Wrote: "Paraplegic shot, killed armed intruder" seems a lot less credible than "landlord shoots tennants". That last one is all the craze these days, angry white males shooting and killing (usually black) teens. At some points teens are gonna shoot back.
Most murders in the US are intraracial. 86% of white homicide victims are killed by white people and 94% of black homicide victims are killed by black people. Blacks make up 12.5% of the US population, include about 47% of murder victims and commit more than 52% of the murders. While a black person in the US is at considerably higher risk of being murdered than a white person in general, a white person is 2.5 times more likely to be killed by a black person than a black person is to be killed by a white person. It is not an angry white male problem.
The leading cause of death among black males between 15 and 19 isn’t angry white men. It is homicide at the hands of other blacks. 48% of all deaths in that particular demographic are the result of homicides committed by other blacks. If you exclude unintentional injuries (22%) black on black murder accounts for nearly half again as many deaths as all other causes of death combined within that demographic.
Poverty probably accounts for some of this discrepancy between whites and blacks. Blacks suffer from a much higher overall percentage of poverty in this country than whites. However it can’t be all of it because there are twice as many whites as blacks living in poverty here, and the number of violent crimes committed by these two ethnic groups is fairly close to equal. No, a large part of the discrepancy is due to our criminal justice system. Blacks are incarcerated at a much higher rate than whites for the same crime. Many of them are there for nonviolent drug related crimes. Most of those currently incarcerated will be repeat offenders. Many of them will commit violent crimes the next time around. It is a product of our flawed system.
http://www.cdc.gov/men/lcod/2008/LCODBlackmales2008.pdf
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/homicide/race.cfm
http://www.statehealthfacts.org/profilei...n=1&ind=14
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