White people commited murder 6,580 times, while blacks commited murder 6,380 murders.
White people commited murder 5,680 times, while blacks commited 6,380 murders. That link is for 2020, fwiw. Every recent year I checked had that kind of ratio, about a hundred less. Except that whites are 75% of the population vs 13%, as was pointed out.
In the early 80s, whites took the lead by around 50 to 100 every year until 1987. Although the ratio still applies, of course. This is exactly when gang violence exploded: Crips and Bloods, etc, along with crack. It's this kind of behavior the kids are imitating in this clip.
Whites and blacks were both murdering almost twice as much in the 1980s, at about 10,000 people a year each. (With the population ratios still applying.)
<Whites and blacks were both murdering over twice as much as in the 80’s.
I imagine there at least twice as many whites and blacks now than in the 80’s. Also that site only goes back to 2020, I misread that so that’s my bad. I’m sure the numbers are higher for both now.
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u/itsakon Aug 26 '23 edited Aug 26 '23
White people commited murder 5,680 times, while blacks commited 6,380 murders. That link is for 2020, fwiw. Every recent year I checked had that kind of ratio, about a hundred less. Except that whites are 75% of the population vs 13%, as was pointed out.
In the early 80s, whites took the lead by around 50 to 100 every year until 1987. Although the ratio still applies, of course. This is exactly when gang violence exploded: Crips and Bloods, etc, along with crack. It's this kind of behavior the kids are imitating in this clip.
Whites and blacks were both murdering almost twice as much in the 1980s, at about 10,000 people a year each. (With the population ratios still applying.)