85% of the Defund the Police-Era Crime Increase Has Been in Black and Hispanic N

[Ptarmigan]

85% of the Defund the Police-Era Crime Increase Has Been in Black and Hispanic Neighborhoods
https://www.city-journal.org/violent-crimes-disparate-racial-impact

In recent years, mainstream media have become obsessed with racism. Whether individual or institutional, racism has never faced greater public disapproval according to many reliable measures, yet publications like the New York Times and Washington Post inject the issue into stories on every conceivable topic—from music to sports to cuisine—all calculated to build up the narrative that America is white supremacist at its core. But in their zeal to highlight every racial microaggression at Ivy League universities or in corporate newsrooms, the media all too often ignore the real victims of crime and societal neglect, who are disproportionately nonwhite.

According to CDC data released last month, 2020 bore witness to the largest rate of increase in homicides recorded in modern history—a finding that tracks with FBI data. Murder rose 29 percent from 2019 to 2020, surpassing the previous record 12.7 percent spike from 1967 to 1968. Unsurprisingly, the victims of the latest surge in violence were not equally distributed across racial groups. The rise in black homicide victims from 2019 to 2020 was almost twice as big as the rise in white victims (28 percent versus 16 percent).

A new Marshall Project analysis on last year’s homicide wave in major American cities highlights the striking racial disparity: more than 85 percent of the increase in murders occurred in black and Hispanic neighborhoods, where homicide rates were already higher than in white neighborhoods. In Chicago, for example, black neighborhoods saw a rise of 27 murders per 100,000 residents, whereas white neighborhoods saw a rise of only two per 100,000.

Most of the crime increase have occurred in Black and Hispanic neighborhoods. Where is the outrage for that?

[DLR Pyro]

[thundley4]

Defund the police was driven by white liberals because they knew their neighborhoods would still be protected. Like most Democrat ideas, it hurts the poor and the minorities the worst.

[SVPete]

Like murders in cities like Chicago and Baltimore, it's virtually invisible to national-level MSM because little of it is white-on-______.

[FlaGator]

I have come to the conclusion that with racism being such a big deal black on black crime is on the back burner of social ills because it is not related to racism. There is no campaign money to be had by promising to do something about crimes by minorities on other minorities. If it can't be blamed on evil whitey then how cares?