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To summarize the data on homicide and race, and offer perspective, the UCR reveals that both the offending rate and victimization rate for blacks are six times greater than the same rates for whites. Moreover, this pattern is not new. The staggering racial disparity in homicide rates is due to the fact that blacks are so grossly overrepresented among both victims and offenders.
Once again, it bears repeating that homicide is overwhelmingly an intra-racial crime. According to the statistical data, the most likely victim and perpetrator of murder in the U.S. is a young, black male, approximately twenty-one years of age. Thus, incredibly, the same individual could be either the victim or the offender in the most likely murder scenario.
For the last 10yrs or so I’ve heard that African Americans make up 13% of the population but commit 50%+ of the homicides.
I’d like to understand how this and other violent crime statistics look today.
Can anyone help?