African-American Homicide Rate Nearly Quadruple the National Average

The number of murders in the United States is increasing recently. A tragic night's news article from Chicago made this situation very obvious, and the murder rate in the city of Chicago soared in the past few years. (The murder rate in Chicago is a legal hockey stick figure.)

The murder rate in Chicago is amazing, but it is not the worst in the United States for big cities. This suspicious difference is due to Saint Louis. Other cities with higher murder rates than Chicago include Memphis, Baltimore, New Orleans, Detroit, Cleveland, Birmingham. (Economists have an excellent interactive chart comparing the murder rates of the most violent 50 cities in the United States.)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have confirmed that the overall murder rate - and the homicide rate in each ethnic group - has increased from 2014 to 2015 after a long-term overall reduction. Murder rate in 2015 (per 100 thousand people):

Compared to the national average, the white murder rate was 54%, the Hispanic murder rate was 14%, and the black murder rate rose 267%. In other words, the murder rate of African Americans is nearly four times the national average.

Last year, President Obama emphasized the importance of this problem. He said, "The biggest cause of death for young black men between the ages of 18 and 35 is murder, it's madness, it's madness." In fact, that's worse than that. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, murder is the leading cause of death among African Americans of all ages 15 to 34 years old (ie 15 to 19 years old, 20 to 24 years old and 25 to 34 years old).

Source: "QuickStats: Racial / ethnic hurricane age adjustment rate - USA, 1999 - 2015." MMWR 66 (31): 839. Release date: August 11, 2017 DOI: 10.15585 / mmwr. Mm 6631 a 9

For African-American boys aged 10 to 14, murder is the second leading cause of death, accounting for 11%. As the age of this group rises, this ratio will be more than 4 times. 49% of the deaths of African-American men are between the ages of 15 and 19, exceeding the nine major causes of death. Their white people died of murder and the death toll was less than 8%. Disease Control Prevention Center Adolescent risk behavior monitoring surveillance monitors the frequency with which young people perform health hazardous behavior such as smoking, ingesting drugs, ingesting bad meals, carrying weapons. According to the nationwide questionnaire in 2015, one in twenty high school students, that is, one student in one family's family has a gun outside the house. According to the survey, 5.6% of the students nationwide are concerned about safety, so they go to school at least one day.

According to the national estimate of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the overall shooting rate of the country has declined by almost 50% since 1993. And the peak of gun violence in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In general, opinion polls show that most Americans are not yet aware of this trend, but the country is safer than the 1990s. According to estimates by the African-American disease management and prevention center, the overall murder rate of shooting dropped to about half between 1993 and 2010. By checking the trend of shooting events in various cities dating back to 1975, you can see more complicated situations. Since the early 1990s, New York City has become safer for all residents and continues to decline violence. In other cities, including St. Louis and Baltimore, the number of blacks taken in recent years is close to the early 1990s.