Gun Crime Research Paper

"Data shows that 93 percent of black homicide victims are killed by other blacks." (The Daily Wire) The amount of black people murdered by other black people is unbelievable and has to come to a stop. Black people are literally contributing to their own exinction by murdering each other and it one of the most idiotic thing to do. "since 1980, approximately 324,000 Black people have been murdered by other Black people which is more soldiers killed in the Iraq War, Korean War, and Vietnam Conflict combined." ("New Center on Black-on-Black Violence Opens at Arkansas Baptist College.") The violence literally dose not have a purpose and makes the situation even more pointless. If the rate of the killings do not slow down black people will really be a minority because their shortening their numbers, someone has to stop the trend of murdering your own kind.

As I witnessed the videos and sound recordings of the police killings of these Black youth: Trayvon Martin, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and Darnisha Harris, I, too, lost hope for racial equality and developed a fear of law enforcement that still exists to this day. These emotions are quite common amongst Black youth, yet the presence of such is

Over the last two years in the United States the African-American people have been fighting a war within our own backyards. The Washington Post reports that since January 2015, the police have shot and killed over 175 young black men ranging from ages 18-29; 24 of them were unarmed. On the flip side 172 young white men were killed, only 18 being unarmed. With these statistics there are similarities in the numbers but, blacks were killed at rates disproportional to their percentage of U.S population (1.Washington Post). Of all unarmed people shot and killed by police in 2015. With 40% being black men make up just 6% of the nation’s populations. In the wake of the killings of Mike Brown, Sandra Bland, Alton Sterling, and many more the world has been made more publicly aware of injustices black people have to handle when dealing with law enforcement. Crime in the black community is nothing new in the black community or should I say black on black crime. There is a bad stereotype that has been put on black people since slavery times that I believe has help fueled the violence between the police and my people.

Black men are a target in America. If you happen to be an African American male between the age of 15 and 34 you are nine times more likely to be killed lawfully or unlawfully by your local police force than any other racial demographic living in America today stated by Alexander Reynolds (2016). Racism is becoming more and more visible today.

Does this data suggest that African Americans are simply more violent than the rest of the population, or is this an example of racial injustice by police officers? Is a black citizen more likely to be arrested when committing a crime than a white citizen who commits the same crime? University of Wisconsin-Whitewater criminologist Marvin D. Free, Jr. believes that today, African Americans are still being targeted by police officers, and are being left at a disadvantage. Free believes that black defendants are more likely to be arrested under less definite evidence than whites are. He also believes black defendants are more likely to be overcharged in crimes (Schmalleger,

Police shootings of African Americans have become frequent events in the US. This racist justice system poses a threat to all African Americans, but also to our society in general, and it's time we do something about it.

New York Times also stated that black males from age 15-19 were 21 times more likely to be killed by police than white males in that age group. Also unarmed black men were seven times more likely to be killed by police than unarmed white men.

Being an African American in a criminal state can be a dark and unfair place to be. “African Americans now constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated population”. (NAACP) When Michael Brown was shot, Americans have focused more on the harsh treatments from a police. A huge amount of black people have been murdered in encounters of the police since the death of Ferguson and years before then.

According to a Washington Post database of lethal police shootings 24 unarmed black men have been shot and killed by police so far this year. This means one a black man dies every nine days. Three unarmed black men were shot and killed in the month of April alone. All three shootings were either caught on tape or reported on local TV. The 24 unarmed black men that were killed compose a startling small amount of the 585 people shot and killed by police. According to The Post database. Most of those killed were white or Hispanic, and a good number of all races were armed. However, according to Wesley, black men accounted for 40 percent of the 60 unarmed deaths, even though they make up just 6 percent of the U.S. population.

According to our book, African American males, aged 17-39, have the highest rate of becoming victims and as a whole; it is the African American population that have the highest risk of victimization as a group(Karmen). Much of the risk of victimization can stem from several characteristics, from where they live, their economic status and their lifestyle. The community they live in may be neighborhoods that are not as well off or are poor, where crime has become a part of the daily living experience. Generations upon generations grow up in the impoverished inner city; crime becomes a learned behavior passed on from the generations before. They quit school and join one of the inner city gangs and why not, their peers are doing it. I see a lot

The number of black people killed by whites – a demographic in the FBI report that includes those of Hispanic descent – surged by nearly a quarter in 2015 from the year before, as the number of whites

I would like to see more Black Americans launching anti-gun violence efforts in their own communities. I believe we cannot continue to pretend as if black-on-black crime does not exist and affect communities just as much as other injustices. Many critics may argue “black-on-black” crime diverts from underlying issues such as poverty and police brutality that the national Black Lives Matter Movement draws attention to in public and in the media. However, police brutality and black-on-black crime is two sides of the same gun violence coin. Turning a blind eye to this issue creates a double standard, and I want to fight against gun violence in all forms on the frontlines.

In recent years the killings of African American men have increased, especially those of unarmed black men. Between 2010 and 2012 it was reported that Blacks males were 21 times more likely to be

As for police violence towards blacks, a study analyzing data from the U.S. Shooting Database found that in America “the probability of being black, unarmed, and shot by police is about 3.49 times the probability of being white, unarmed, and shot by police on average.” As you read the only

The police targeting of black people is in line with their higher crime rates. In a country having a well-established legal system, the police are less likely to shoot people of any one race every time. In accounting for why some of these encounters turn into killings, it is due to their higher crime rates. “young black men commit homicide at nearly ten times the rate of young white and Hispanic males combined” (McDonald). Such a higher crime rate means that if the police simply stopped suspects based on the crime rates, black people would more likely to encounter police officers. For example, in the case of Ferguson, a black community that has higher crimes rates, Michael Brown had many criminal records and he was also a suspect of stealing cigars from the convenience