Lost in the uproar over the NFL sideline protests against police brutality are newly released statistics showing that the threat to black men is skyrocketing — not from trigger-happy or racist cops, but from crime.
More than any other demographic group, black men are paying the price with their lives with a surging violent crime rate over the past two years, including a 20 percent jump in the overall homicide rate, even as the number of blacks killed by police declines.
Using homicide figures from the 2016 FBI Uniform Crime Report released Sept. 25, Manhattan Institute fellowHeather Mac Donald found that the number of black homicide victims has jumped by nearly 900 per year since the Black Lives Matter movement took root in 2014.
“The majority of victims of that homicide surge have been black,” Ms. Mac Donald said in an email. “They were killed overwhelmingly by black criminals, not by the police and not by whites.”
Meanwhile, the number of blacks killed by police dipped from 259 in 2015 to 233 in 2016, with 2017 so far coming in below both years with 175 deaths as of Oct. 12, according to The Washington Post’s Fatal Force database.
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They will never acknowledge that they are their own worst enemy.
ReplyDeleteThey always use the wrong platform its against their over stretched 15 minutes of fame.
ReplyDeleteThose football thugs might want to police their own players before worrying about other thugs.
ReplyDeleteHow many whites were Killed?
ReplyDeleteHating whites is just a diversion that blacks use to avoid acknowledging that they are actually the root of their own problems.
ReplyDeleteThink it as policing themselves, but not very well.
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