Missouri's Black Homicide Rate Worst in U.S.
For the second time, Missouri is No. 1 in a list ranking states with the highest black homicide victimization rates.
Missouri leads the nation in homicides involving black victims for the second year in a row with a rate seven times higher than the national average.
The Violence Policy Center released a study ranking Missouri first out of the 50 states in a list of black homicide victimization rates. In Missouri, 34.72 per 100,000 black people are victims of homicide, according to the study.
Firearms, especially handguns, are overwhelmingly the weapons of choice in homicides, according to the study. Eighty-seven percent of black homicide victims were killed with guns in 2009, the year with the most recent data available.
Of the 239 black homicide victims in Missouri in 2009, 206 were male and 33 were female.
In St. Louis, 125 of the 143 homicides in 2009 involved black victims, according to the Kansas City Star.
After Missouri, the states with the highest black homicide victimization rates are: Michigan, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Indiana, Tennessee, Wisconsin, California and Nevada.
Mike
2:04 pm on Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Be nice to know what % was black on black, black on white, white on black. If the stats are accurate better than 98 % were black on black. Thank the Send for demolishing the black family putting them in subsidized help holes.
Ed
7:24 am on Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Mike, Thank who for demolishing the black family?
Unlisted Unlisted
3:15 pm on Thursday, February 23, 2012
The areas they are talking about in St. Louis are black on black killings. I live in Missouri, and the crimes in the areas they are talking about are under reported to make the stats look even better if you can believe that. It's bad in the areas they are talking about.
Mr. X
8:30 pm on Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Everyone try's to say poor African Americans and to be clear the black homicide rate is so high because they run around their own "hoods" offing each other at record numbers but I'm sure it's white people's fault somehow.
Yeah, Right
5:04 am on Thursday, April 5, 2012
As you read these words, Jesse and Al are on their way to save the day!
NOT.
Kc uncle Tom
2:23 am on Sunday, April 15, 2012
Education is what most black need in their lives..lack of respect is what killing the black..
William Braudis
10:46 am on Friday, May 4, 2012
Africans in America are Genetically wired to violence. Handed down through generations the need to kill protected their need to survive. We are thankful that these people kill each other as this is natures way of holding down the African population in America.