PA ranks 2nd in black homicide victims
Today, the Violence Policy Center (VPC) released its annual list of the states with the highest black homicide victimization rates and Pennsylvania ranks second this year, after dropping down to third last year.
PA ranks 2nd in black homicide victims
It's a list no state wants to make but it's a list on which Pennsylvania always ranks high.
Today, the Violence Policy Center (VPC) released its annual list of the states with the highest black homicide victimization rates and Pennsylvania ranks second this year, after dropping down to third last year.
The VPC uses the most recent FBI data to compile its statistics, and that's always two years behind, so this year's numbers come from 2010 data.
In 2010, there were 419 black homicide victims in Pennsylvania, making the black homicide rate 26.87 murders per 100,000 black people, according to the VPC.
Pennsylvania ranked only behind Missouri, which had 255 black citizens murdered in 2010 but, due to population, had a homicide victimization rate of 33.86 per 100,000.
The average age of a black homicide victim in Pennsylvania in 2010 was 29 years old and men overwhelmingly outnumbered women by 377 to 42, according to the study.
Guns were behind 84 percent of the killings and 86 percent of the victims were killed by someone they knew, the VPC said.
Nationally, the black homicide victimization rate was 16.32 per 100,000 compared to an overall national homicide rate of 4.43 per 100,000, the VPC said.
This year, New Jersey ranked 14th, Delaware 19th and New York 21st.
It's time to face the facts, be they politically correct or not. There is a certain element of our society that can't be trusted with firearms. The statistics prove this but nobody will talk about it. All we hear about is how many of the young people of this particular element of society are being killed by guns when the truth is,,,,they are killing each other and would be using a knife or club if guns weren't available. Nobody can face the truth so we blame guns,an inanimate object instead of human behavior.— old409- Ramsey and Nutter are not clueless, they can't wait to take another train to Washington DC. Seth work hard for those who do get arrested getting them back on the streets. All and all a fine job!— DEBBY1958
- And the person Obummer brings in to give advice on how to solve gun violence is Philadelphia Police Commissioner Ramsey, the person who has one of the worst records in country in terms of preventing gun violence. It shows again clueless the community agitator-in-chief is about yet another item of concern. Commonsense would tell anyone with half a brain that if Ramsey had a clue of how to solve the gun violence problem he would have instituted it. The blind leading the blind.— Speak-truth-2-power
- 86% of the victims were killed by someone they knew. I figure that if you don't know a single black individual, you fall in the 14% safe minority. Not a bad thing for our racist commentators here.— DonQ
- Why are the guns black people own more prone to violence than white people's guns? Can we make a law that all guns are equally prone to committting violence?— tr88
- Are you sure guns "were behind" 84% those killings? What per centage came from broken families?— tr88
- The 4 County area where I live now has only had 34 deaths of Blacks in 20 years , and the average Black population is about 15% , or The National average , So Maybe somebody is Taking Too Many Illegal Drugs in The Major 3 Cities , and not citizens who live , and work off The "Reservation" ?
I Would suggest Aside from banning White People , That if You do Not want to be a Victim of Gun , or ANY Type of Violent Crime ,...................Wear a Chicken Costume !
It May look Funny , but Will keep you safe , but Most important You will help deter Crime , providing no one tries to Deep Fry ya .
Now Go Watch "CSPAN today , and see it all First Hand !— oldsog67 
And you people wonder why we all have full gun safes up here in da noffeasst!! Just in case there's a little spill-over from da hood. Gin control is very important- you want to hit what you are aiming at!!- Yeah !.................. And The "North-Central" is Brimmin wit targets too , especially The Towanda Boys Club , and Choir .
— oldsog67 
When you have a culture that glorifies the keepin' it real, thug lifestyle, this is what happens. At some point, one generation of black people is going to have to stop it from moving on.— LouDiamondPhillipsheadScrewdriver- those murders were all intra racial. that means blacks killing other blacks.stupid (HTML deleted)— the lopez!
- Wait until Jesse and Sharpton find out about this. There will be outrage and they will want to find who is committing these crimes against the black population.— dontavoidtheobvious
- Looking forward to the outrage of the African American Community, led by Mayor Nutter, DA Seth Williams, Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, Council President Darrell Clarke and the Black Clergy. What? No Outrage? Apathetic Genocide!— tlee
- And who are the culprits?— barcadefire
- I would bet most of these killings happen in those 0 Romney vote neighborhoods. Just a guess though ....— 420Phillie
Comment removed.- Bush's fault. — DeltaV
- The real question is why? That's what no one wants to talk about because no one wants to be called racist for pointing out the obvious.— edith bunker
