Gonna be gone for a few days… I will leave you with my call into the Larry Elder Show:
I was just curious about a stat that I always hear… which is that about half of the violent murders in America are done by black men. What is the percentage of this group. Most blacks I know are hard working, law abiding citizens (that is due maybe to my area I live?). At any rate I wonder what the percentage in the black community is that commits these crimes.
I had a question I wanted to bounce off The Sage. While he confirmed it is a small percentage that commit these types of crimes… I would still think maybe it’s even smaller?
In 1985 an article in the Orlando Sentinel notes-black-on-black crime:
- “Only 10 percent of blacks commit crimes against other blacks. So 90 percent of the black population is being terrorized by a small minority. Criminals should not automatically be defended simply because of their race, because there are some blacks who should be incarcerated.”
What is the stat? Is there a study on this? As of now this is our reality of what many black law enforcement officials call “urban terrorism”
…Heather Mac Donald, author of “The War On Cops,” has done a stunning and thorough amount of research which has yielded, among other things, the fact that blacks make up just 15 percent of the population in the nation’s 75 largest counties (2009), yet comprise 45 percent of all assault defendants, 62 percent of all robbery defendants, and 57 percent of all murder defendants. In New York City alone, where blacks comprise 23 percent of the population, they account for 75 percent of all shootings, 70 percent of all robberies, and 66 percent of all violent crime.
The wonder therefore, isn’t that a group so highly represented in violent crime comprises 26 percent of deaths that occur in altercations with authority, but rather that the rate isn’t higher still. Whites, who account for 33 percent of New York City’s population, commit less than 2 percent of all shootings, 4 percent of robberies and 5 percent of all violent crime while having the highest fatality rate in confrontations with police. Happily, they haven’t resorted to blocking interstate highways and targeting the police and show no interest in doing so….