WASHINGTON, Aug. 9, 2007
Feds: 49% Of Murder Victims Are Black Men
Justice Department Says Most Are 17-29 Years Old, And Their Murder Rate Is Going Up
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A majority of the black murder victims were relatively young — between 17 and 29, the Justice Department said in a study released Thursday.
The department's Bureau of Justice Statistics report offers a snapshot of racial disparities among violent crime victims. Black people represented an estimated 13 percent of the U.S. population in 2005, the latest data available, but were the victims of 49 percent of all murders and 15 percent of rapes, assaults and other nonfatal violent crimes nationwide.
Most of the black murder victims — 93 percent — were killed by other black people, the study found. About 85 percent of white victims were slain by other white people.
National Urban League President Marc Morial, a former mayor of New Orleans, said the data reflect a trend that cannot be reversed by law enforcement alone. It will require changes in public education and a revival of federal summer jobs programs for economically disadvantaged young people, he said.
"The mixture of illegal drugs, easy access to handguns and young men who feel locked out of economic opportunity is what these statistics reflect," Morial said.
An estimated 16,400 people were murdered in the United States in 2005, down from a peak of 21,400 a decade ago. Similarly, the number of black people slain dropped over the last 10 years, from 10,400 in 1995 to almost 8,000 in 2005.
But the murder rate among black men rose slightly between 2004 and 2005, continuing several years of dips and increases.
Two years ago, 6,783 black men were murdered, up from 6,342 in 2004, the study shows. The murder rate among white men also rose, but less dramatically: 5,850 were slain in 2005, compared with 5,769 the year before.
Murders of women, white and black, remained relatively unchanged between the two years.
Additionally, more than half of black murder victims — 51 percent — were in their late teens and twenties. Comparatively, just over a third — 37 percent — of white people murdered were between 17 and 29, the study shows.
The study did not take a detailed look at violent crime victims who are Hispanic or Latino, or other races. However, it concluded that violent crime victims were more often black than any other race except American Indians.
Among the study's other findings:
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Crazy blacks get off on drugs
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Dont say I include all blacks because I dont.
There are lots of great people who are black.
Unfortunately, O.J. is very typical.
The CRAZY BLACKS.
Give him all the money, fame and respect in the world and what do you get?
A low life coward psycho murderer.
( Michael Vick and hundreds of others , ditto )
Black America has two choices.....
1/ continue to hide it's head in the sand in denial and excuses we've all heard a million times , or....
2/ Take responsibility.
Grow up.
Get your act together.
Choose one.
Posted by tbweb at 09:09 AM : Aug
I agree,
here it is :
go to school,
get a job,
pay your taxes,
support your community,
be a good citizen.
Period.
Any questions ??
Drug gangs and drug dealers would need to find another way to make billions of dollars!
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everybody gets off on making money, being successful and enjoying life.
Except,
Crazy blacks get off on drugs, killing and stupidity ( Michael Vick = Michael Dick )
So,
WHAT ELSE IS NEW ???????
Sorry, this is not racist,
THIS IS REALITY,
Deal with it.....
and the weather's nice today......duuuhhhh
As for cutting off appendages, that is not a bad idea, but for advocating a remedy from Islam, you risk being branded a "terrorist" by people just like yourself, knee-jerk fake conservatives.
You know your boy Bush's hands would be first to go...
No, there are not jobs everywhere, your saying there are does not make them exist.
I cite Labor Dept. statistic that indicate a six month average job search time for the minimum wage jobs, and longer for better paying ones. Can you survive without food for for six months? Do you support a family? Do you think they can go six months without, waiting for you to get a McJob? What would you do if your hypothetical child was hungry, and there were no legal options no getting some food to her/him, and public assistance has been turned into a joke, because those who gutted it have your "they are just lazy" BS mantra?
Prohibition kills. Always has, always will.
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it makes you no better then those who kill...
your statement clearly does nothing more than express your enjoyment to watch even those who commit sin to die at your hand...
murder is nothing more than the sign of a weak man... making you weak
' i reach out with hand and touch, as easy i reach out w/ hand and touch things outside grasp, i touch them with hand in my mind, or tail or wing, i dont' build machines, i choose to be in multiple spaces at once, and in allspace in between, and none of it as well at the same time '
' which came first eternity or the earth '
' can't get something from nothing, but you're destined to get nothing from something .000...1% of the time '
' most eternity is like roses, one may carve folk to bits, yet they live on forever, forever shifting shapes and spaces and times and dimensions and much more '
' folk spend more than enough each day to feed the world and more than enough to tax it: yet each day it gets taxed and no day it gets fed, yet though half have no money each day, only .0002857% starve to death each day, and they would eat if fold would stop meditating: 'theres no such thing as a free lunch' while nearly all the lunches in the world are free ... most farms are subsidized public and private, as are most hospitals and schools, even in the u.s.a. that pays for little outside war '
I'm down with eye-for-an-eye!
Somebody gets caught killing somebody and convicted, the minimum penalty should be death by the state/government, with the families of the victim having an option to flip the switch!
I believe in cutting off appendages when caught taking something that isn't yours, that is if the victim doesn%u2019t get to you first. If the victim catches you that%u2019s up to them.
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