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48 ¦ FEBRUARY 24, 2020 CLOSING ARGUMENT

EDITORIAL BOARD

Crimes Against Blacks, Women Still
Underreported in Media

White victims tend to get close attention The homicide rate for female black victims was 5.07
while the murder of people of color is of- per 100,000. In comparison, the overall rate for female
ten callously left unexplored. homicide victims was 1.97 per 100,000. For white fe-
A new study, Black Homicide Victimization in the male homicide victims it was 1.55 per 100,000.
United States: An Analysis of 2016 Homicide Data According to a 2017 Centers for Disease Control
taps unpublished data from the FBI’s Supplemen- and Prevention report, black and indigenous wom-
tary Homicide Report to rank states according to en are slain at significantly higher rates than women
the number of black teens and adults murdered of other races. Black women are killed at a rate of
there. The data available from 2016 reveals a na- 4.4 per 100,000 people, and indigenous women at
tional crisis. According to the data, in 2016 there a rate of 4.3 per 100,000; every other race has a ho-
were 7,756 black homicide victims in the United micide rate of between one and two per 100,000.
States. The homicide rate among black victims in Hispanic women who were killed, meanwhile, were
the United States was 20.44 per 100,000. For that the most likely to be killed in connection to partner
year, the overall national homicide rate was 5.10 per violence (61 percent of all homicides of Hispanic
100,000. For whites, the national homicide rate was women). While homicide is a leading cause of
2.96 per 100,000, or less than 15% of that for Blacks. death for all women under 44, the CDC found
The homicide rate for black male victims was non-Hispanic black women are “disproportionate-
37.12 per 100,000. In comparison, the overall rate ly affected” when compared to other racial groups
for male homicide victims was 8.29 per 100,000. in the United States. In fact, the homicide rate for
For white male homicide victims it was 4.39 per black and Native American women was twice that
100,000, or 12% of the rate for blacks. of Asian, Hispanic and white women.

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