Study: Murders among black youths on the rise

[Americanhero1]

WASHINGTON – The number of young black men and teenagers who either killed or were killed in shootings has risen at an alarming rate since 2000, a new study shows.

The study, to be released Monday by criminologists at Northeastern University in Boston, comes as FBI data is showing that murders have leveled off nationwide.

Not so for black teens, the youngest of whom saw dramatic increases in shooting deaths, the Northeastern report concluded.

Last year, for example, 426 black males between the ages of 14 and 17 were killed in gun crimes, the study shows. That marked a 40 percent increase from 2000.

Similarly, an estimated 964 in the same age group committed fatal shootings in 2007 — a 38 percent increase from seven years earlier. The number of offenders is estimated because not all crimes are reported, said Northeastern criminologist James Alan Fox, who co-authored the study.

"Although the overall rate of homicide in the United States remains relatively low, the landscape is quite different for countless Americans living, and some dying, in violence-infested neighborhoods," Fox said.

Seizing on President-elect Barack Obama's incoming administration as an opportunity for more funding, Fox added: "There is an urgency for reinvestment in children and families. In essence, we need a bailout for kids at risk."

Obama will be the nation's first black president.

The study partly blamed Bush administration grant cuts to local police and juvenile crime prevention programs for the surge in crimes by young black men and teens. Incoming Vice President Joe Biden has promised funding to put 50,000 new police officers on the street to help bring violent crime rates back to a decade-long annual decline that began in the mid-1990s, after then-President Bill Clinton provided local officials with money to hire 100,000 new cops.

Nationwide, the number of murders and violent crimes overall dropped last year after increasing in 2005 and 2006, according to annual data compiled by the FBI. Overall, however, murders have risen by about 8 percent between 2000 and 2007.

The FBI reported 10,067 arrests in murder and non-negligent manslaughter cases in 2007. Half of the people arrested — 5,078 — were black. Almost 10 percent of black people arrested for murder were under age 18, the FBI data show.

The number of young white men who committed gun-related homicides also rose over the same period, the Northeastern study showed, but not as dramatically. In 2007, an estimated 384 white males age 14 to 17 shot someone to death, up from 368 in 2000.

The numbers of homicides committed by women and teenage girls — whether black or white — were relatively few, the Northeastern study found.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081229/ap_on_re_us/black_homicides

[SavetheWest]

Wait.  I thought blacks were geniuses and were all like Will Smith?  Why would amazing geniuses be responsible for most of the murders?
This is either propaganda by the white man or we need more funding for midnight basketball programs. 

 

[briann]

All that will stop under Obama.     By the way..... what about black on white murders?  Why dont they mention this hugely significant number?

[SavetheWest]

I will 100% guarantee you that every single black who killed someone listend to rap but not all of their black victims did.  I bet a huge number of the white murderers listen to rap too. 

[Abben]

Wait.  I thought blacks were geniuses and were all like Will Smith?  Why would amazing geniuses be responsible for most of the murders?
This is either propaganda by the white man or we need more funding for midnight basketball programs. 

 

will smith a genius thats a good laugh. If he is lucky he can be a genius at the apple store. obongo will stop nothing but what he will do is tell the media who LOVES him not to air the stories.

[Americanhero1]

Wait.  I thought blacks were geniuses and were all like Will Smith?  Why would amazing geniuses be responsible for most of the murders?
This is either propaganda by the white man or we need more funding for midnight basketball programs. 

 

will smith a genius thats a good laugh. If he is lucky he can be a genius at the apple store. obongo will stop nothing but what he will do is tell the media who LOVES him not to air the stories.

[q_q_]

I think Will Smith's Prince Of Belair character was to show black people how stupid they look if they act like that guy.  But that if they put their mind to it they can do alot. The rare times that Will Smith's character did some work, he did well.  Infact, maybe all the characters were meant to be role models. They lived in a mansion courtesy of a father that was a hard working disciplinarian. And it was annoying, each episode taught some moral lesson..it wasn't purely for entertainment.

I saw a program that really annoyed me.. It said that you get thugs off the street by teaching them boxing!!
And with blacks looking up to boxers, I don't like it, it's just more trouble.  They should be put in prison and forced to Ballet dance.

[zachor_ve_kavod]

It's cultural.  Roughly 70% of black men leave their family.  Who does that?  What kind of a mentality does a person have to possess to leave their children?  Well...perhaps someone who is uneducated maybe?  Roughly 3/4 of black people don't finish high school.  So they are not going to get very good jobs.  But then there is affirmative action, so they get jobs that they are not qualified for.  Then they can't do these jobs well, because they're not qualified to begin with, so they blame white people for their failure.

You've got black preachers in church who are still stuck in the 1930s.  All they do is preach hatred for their "white oppressors".  You've got some black people like Ward Connerly, who actually say to black people that they have to stop blaming white people and begin taking responsibility for their own lives.  For this he is called an uncle Tom.  So the few reasonable black people out their are forced to keep quiet or they are going to be seen as traitors to their own people.

All of this leads to an over-inflated sense of entitlement, which is a form of psychopathology.  The black community has created a generation of sociopaths.  They are only able to think of their immediate desires, and are completely oblivious to the worth of other people.  There is no respect for human life or for G-d, so it is not surprising that there is a big murder problem among this community.

I don't celebrate this about black people.  I would like to see them take some responsibility for their own lives and try to better their situations.  I just don't see it happening anytime soon.  It's too bad.  There is so much more that could be had in this life than what they make of it.

[דוד בן זאב אריה]

http://takingnotes.blogspot.com/2007/08/black-murder-victims.html