06-22-2017, 05:50 PM
(06-22-2017, 05:31 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Lol, as if 90% aren't gang-related. In 2015 there were ~13,000 gun homicides, in Chicago alone that year there were 424 gun homicides (it was much worse in 2016). That alone is 3.26% of the entire countries gun homicides from just ONE city. If you think the entire rest of the country will only combine for ~6.74%, then I would like some of what you're having.
424 gun homicides does not equal to 424 gang homicides by firearm.
The most recent homicide trends report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics that I have seen that digs down to the nitty gritty shows that gang violence adds up to about 10% of the number of gun homicides. That is total gang homicides, not just the ones carried out by firearm.
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf
Now, admittedly, this information is a few years old. However, from the other data available there is no reason to believe that the trend has seen a shift so dramatic as to flip the 90/10 ratio, or even come close to it. It is possible that in that time frame we could see an increase in the contribution of gang violence rise to 12-13%, but not any higher than that.
As for the rest of your post, a lot of focus there seems to be on proximate causes. That's fine, but they are nothing more than band-aid solutions that won't last. Well, the culture one is more of a root cause thing, but there is a chicken and an egg scenario there with how our society and systems treat the black community before we will see their culture change.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
