Posted on 01/24/2014 9:24:46 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
The day of the funeral for a 5-year-old Omaha girl killed by a stray bullet, a national organization declared that Nebraska has the highest black homicide rate in the nation.
The statistics that the Washington D.C.-based Violence Prevention Center analyzed do not include the Jan. 15 killing of Payton Benson. The numbers come from 2011, the most recent year for which comprehensive national homicide data is available. But a high ranking is not a one-year anomaly.
Thirty black people — including 27 people in Omaha — were killed in homicides in Nebraska in 2011. That translates to a black homicide rate of 34.43 per 100,000 people — twice the national average.
By comparison, a total of 65 people of all races died in homicides in Nebraska in 2011, a rate of less than four per 100,000 people.
The overall national homicide rate was 4.44 per 100,000 people.
The Violence Policy Center, a research and advocacy group that promotes gun control, released the rankings Thursday as part of its annual study, “Black Homicide Victimization in the United States.”
The center analyzed data that the FBI collects each year from local law enforcement agencies.
After Nebraska, the states with the next four highest black homicide rates were Missouri, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma.
Nebraska ranked fourth for 2010, and 11th for 2009.
The center's executive director, Josh Sugarmann, called gun violence a public health crisis affecting all Americans, but especially devastating for African Americans.
In Omaha, City Councilman Ben Gray — whose district includes northeast Omaha and who has been active in anti-violence work — said he is “less interested in the statistics than in what the city, collectively, is going to do about it.”
Omaha knows what issues it has, Gray said.
“But do we have the political will to fix them? And when I say we, I'm talking about all of us,” he said.
Meanwhile on Thursday, the Omaha 360 Collaborative and the Empowerment Network announced an anti-violence rally for Saturday, saying that gun violence has affected every part of the city.
The event is scheduled for 2-4 p.m. at Omaha North High School. A tentative list of speakers includes homicide victims' families, Gray, Mayor Jean Stothert and Police Chief Todd Schmaderer.
According to this link, young black males who make up less than 2 percent of the Nebraska population committed up to 80 percent of murders in the state in 2012. 40 out of the 51 murders in 2012 came from North Omaha which is 80 percent black.
Scroll down the page to the 3rd case:
http://blackracismandracehatred.blogspot.com/2014/01/5-cases-6-murdered.html
The same thing that happened to Omaha happened to Des Moines where federal subsidized “diversity” has brought a more “vibrant” culture to formally all white Iowa.
See the article about the white victim beaten to death by the black mob in Des Moines, the next case down the page.
And what was equally despicable was the homo lobby trying to blame Reagan for the spread of the disease that was almost totally caused by irresponsible homo behavior. One of many reasons why I loathe the liberal media.
“Yeah, but I think they are talking per capita, since there are only a total of 40 black people in Omaha, that makes the black murder rate fairly substantial”
Well, there WAS 40..
“According to this link, young black males who make up less than 2 percent of the Nebraska population committed up to 80 percent of murders in the state in 2012. 40 out of the 51 murders in 2012 came from North Omaha which is 80 percent black.”
Without the black population, the US would have one of the lowest crime rates in the world.
I know you're joking, but the black population of Omaha at the 2010 census was around 51,600, and comprised 12.4% of the total population.
I expect to hear Sharpton on today's show say, "Every time Manning sez "Omaha", another young black man falls. What are you going to do about that, Roger Goodell?"
When the rate hits 100%, there will be no additional black murders in Omaha.
I'm not rooting for it, but I, like Gable, frankly don't give a damn.
Too many too stupid to change.
“Stothert says mayor’s race is about change; for Suttle it’s about ‘progressive vision’”
http://www.omaha.com/article/20130402/NEWS/130409890
Guess which party has run Omaha since 2001????
This is a no news stat game.
If there were 10 people in Omaha and five were murdered it would be a 50% rate.
We’re number one. We’re number one. Go huskers.
Every year, the newspaper prints a graphic of all the murders in the City for the last year and where they happened. I have noticed that a pretty consistent 80% or so of the murders happen in a 6 square mile area (about two miles E-W and three miles N-S). Considering there are about 200 square miles within the City limits, that is a pretty small part.
My Son lives in Omaha....he says that North Omaha is like a war zone. Gang violence is out of control there.
Jackson and Sharpton will be coming to Omaha, demanding justice, Holder will begin an investigation, Obama will take more Nebraska land.
I think they got this wrong. Only two black people lived in the state of Minnebraska. One shot the other to death, so they have a 50% black homicide rate.
I thought it would have been a Southern state since we are so awful.
Is it just me or does the Violence Policy Center seem to be saying they don’t think black people should be allowed to purchase guns? Talk about racist!
Thirty black people — including 27 people in Omaha — were killed in homicides in Nebraska in 2011. That translates to a black homicide rate of 34.43 per 100,000 people — twice the national average.
Per capita...
Per capita....
Learn what that means.
It's for a good reason.
Would you want to live in a city of 200k with 220 murders a year or in a city of 2.5 million with 300 murders a year?
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