Por The Blaze,
‘Race Wars’ Part 1: The Shocking Data on Black-on-Black Crime
Black-on-black crime is a sensitive
subject in this increasingly polarized nation. While covered in
academia and occasionally addressed by talking heads on television, some
believe it rarely, if ever, receives the type and depth of
attention it deserves. Instead, critics argue that this national tragedy
is usually swept under the rug by powerful interest groups and
individuals more concerned with elevating their own racially-driven
agendas than addressing the real issues at hand. The Trayvon Martin case
is only the most recent example of this grim hypocrisy.
Indeed, statistics support a very
different narrative than the one usually offered by “race hustlers,” as
Pastor C.L. Bryant calls them, who routinely portray an America where
members of the black community are selectively targeted and brutalized
by white racists.
A 2007 special report released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics,
reveals that approximately 8,000 — and, in certain years, as many as
9,000 African Americans are murdered annually in the United States. This
chilling figure is accompanied by another equally sobering fact, that
93% of these murders are in fact perpetrated by other blacks. The
analysis, supported by FBI records, finds that in 2005 alone, for
example, African Americans accounted for 49% of all homicide victims in
the US — again, almost exclusively at the hands of other African
Americans.
To put these number in perspective,
recall that over 6,400 U.S. service men and women have been killed in
Iraq and Afghanistan combined over the course of a decade-long war
fought in those nations. During the Vietnam War, which lasted nearly 13
years, some 58,000 Americans were killed — nearly 13 percent of whom
were African American.
Graph courtesy of the 2007 Department of Justice Report
Extrapolating black-on-black crime data reveals that, by comparison, approximately 100,000 African Americans have been killed on our own streets at the hands of other African Americans in roughly the same stretches of time. It is difficult to find anyone who would white-wash these mind-numbing statistics.
Equally as startling, the same study
reveals African Americans were victims of an estimated 805,000 nonfatal
violent crimes in just one year alone.
What’s more, blacks comprise roughly 12.5 percent of the U.S. population.
While fatalities persist in every
major metropolitan area across the nation, there are of course certain
cities most impacted by violent crime. Take Cincinnati, for example,
where, after the fatal shooting of a young black man by a white police
officer in 2001, a wave of riots ensued. Since that time, Cincinnati has
set the record for the number of murders carried out each year, with a
persistent violent crime rate at a staggering 88 percent.
The now all-too-familiar statistics
reveal that black males are killed far more often than any other
demographic: “The vast majority of people being murdered are African
American in the City of Cincinnati,” said Hamilton County Prosecutor,
Joe Deters in an interview.
“The vast majority. Well outside the
40 percent of the population it should be. In 2009, the City of
Cincinnati did not have a single white victim of a homicide. (That)
tells me that we have a subset in the underclass of Cincinnati which is
committing a lot of violent crime and they tend to be black. And the
reality is, you almost always commit murder within your racial
classifications. So when we’ve got a young black man up in the coroners
office, it’s almost always a result of another young black man shooting
him.”
That same year, 2009, no white men
were killed in Cincinnati, but 44 black males and 11 females were the
victims of homicide in the city.
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