Posted on 07/25/2018 2:54:55 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
An analysis examining killings over the past decade in 52 of the largest cities in the United States found that black victims were less likely than any other racial group to have their killings result in an arrest.
The Washington Post's analysis released Wednesday finds that African Americans accounted for the majority of homicide victims. According to the data, out of the 26,000 killings analyzed across the 52 cities, the victim was black in 18,600 of the cases.
The analysis also found that police arrested someone in just 47 percent of the killings of African-American victims, compared to arrests made in 63 percent of the killings of white victims.
The newspaper found that in Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit and Philadelphia alone, more than 7,300 homicides involving black victims led to no arrests.
But smaller cities, where white residents accounted for the majority, were also found to have a high number of killings of black victims with no arrests made in the past 10 years, including Columbus, Ohio, where 422 such cases were discovered, and Buffalo, N.Y., where 277 were found.
Boston, Mass., was found to have the largest gap in arrests made between homicides involving white victims and those involving African-American victims. According to the analysis, twice the number of cases were solved involving the killings of white residents in the city in comparison to black residents.
Some police officials told The Post that gang and drug-related shootings, which reportedly account for the majority of unsolved cases, are more difficult to solve than other types of killings.
“Let’s face it, when you talk about murder in our urban communities — black and brown, where gang and group violence is prevalent — you got that retaliation piece,” Detroit Police Chief James Craig told The Post.
“And those are the most challenging kind of homicides to investigate,” added Craig.
The Post noted that Detroit's police department has a 12 percentage point higher rate for arrests made for white victims than in the cases of African-American victims.
The Post's analysis relied on racial classification for victims as recorded by local police in addition to local news reports and public records.
Sane as last week and a week foredat
yes, think how many more black men would be in prison if we brought that arrest rate up to the 63% rate. Liberals wouldn't like that outcome either.
47%? I’m surprised it isn’t considerably lower than that.
It’s less than 10% in Chicago. If there were snitches, it would be a lot lower than that.
93 percent of blacks are murdered by other blacks. To seek black perps would be profiling. I’m just sayin’
Black lives do NOT matter, unless a white guy is the perp, apparently.
Yep because 98% of the time the murdering perp is a Negro and has immunity from White American Justice.
If you're Black and ya want to sat alive, just stay far away from Negros, Illegal aliens and Muslims.
Black people are less likely to cooperate with the police. Makes solving a crime that much harder.
That's why, in NYC, when a public shooting occurs in a black neighborhood, the cops swarm the area.
It tends to dissuade any retaliatory gun play, thereby minimizing the chances of anyone in the heretofore un-involved crowd of gawkers, getting shot by mistake.
#1. YOU GOT IT! Fear, relatives involved, taught the old communist National Lawyers Guild tactics of “No snitching”, “Don’t talk to the police”, “Civilian control of the police”.
And the Left and WP wonder why the police have hard time solving black on black violent crime?
They’re the cause.
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Exactly right.
Alternative: black murderers of other blacks more likely to avoid arrest.
Right. If I were on a police detail and had to patrol a black neighborhood or investigate a crime in Baltimore after what they did, I would pretty much slow-walk everything.
They don’t want me there and think I am racist? I am fine with that. Just don’t be surprised when you kill each other and we don’t trip all over ourselves to bring justice.
What did they think would happen?
And witnesses scatter.
Can you imagine the outrage over the even more lopsided crime statistics showing unfavorably for blacks if that particular statistic where even with the rest of society?
I am not surprised since 93-94% of blacks that are murdered, are murdered by other blacks.
Its not some big ol whitey conspiracy. Its non cooperation from other blacks not wanting to rat out black murderers. They ignore the massive - and i mean massive - violence problem that exists among the black demographic.
Snitches get stitches - or worse.
Well, the Revuhrund So and So, a paid operative of the Democratic Party, doesn’t agree...and thus the simple people in these neighborhoods are totally under the thumb of the Democrat Party. But they’re too simple to realize that they’re being used, at the cost of many lives, both those of cops and those of their children, grandchildren, brothers, and just passers by.
Detectives are cops too. One day they will simply stop investigating corpses that hate them. When that day comes, America may finally end it’s crime problem.
Blacks account for 51% of homicide arrests. If a higher percentage of black homicides were solves, that would increase the black homicide percentage even higher.
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