The Black Community and Crime

By Walter E. Williams January 11, 2017

The FBI reported that the total number of homicides in 2015 was 15,696. Blacks were about 52 percent of homicide victims. That means about 8,100 black lives were ended violently, and over 90 percent of the time, the perpetrator was another black. Listening to the news media and the Black Lives Matter movement, one would think that black deaths at the hands of police are the major problem.

It turns out that in 2015, police across the nation shot and killed 986 people. Of that number, 495 were white (50 percent), 258 were black (26 percent) and 172 Hispanic (17 percent). A study of 2,699 fatal police killings between 2013 and 2015, conducted by John R. Lott Jr. and Carlisle E. Moody of the Crime Prevention Research Center, demonstrates that the odds of a black suspect's being killed by a black police officer were consistently greater than a black suspect's getting killed by a white officer. Politicians, race hustlers and the news media keep such studies under wraps because these studies don't help their narrative about racist cops. The homicide victim is not the only victim, whether he is a criminal or not, for there are mourning loved ones..........Blacks are disproportionately represented as victims in every category of violent crime e.g., forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault........ Ultimately, the solution to high crime rests with black people. Given the current political environment, it doesn’t pay a black or white politician to take those steps necessary to crack down on lawlessness in black communities........To Read More....

My Take - I've often said the group I find most reprehensible, and the most responsible for the modern black nightmare, are the leaders of the black churches.  In the black community the black church is the center of their organized political lives, and much of what else goes on in that community.  And what are these "leaders" harping about?  Equality!  When that's not their problem by any stretch of the imagination. 

Single parent families are the single most significant detrimental problem among blacks at almost 75%. 

I recently watched one of those shows where they take young offenders and put them in a prison setting for a day and let them see what a nightmare prison life can be.  What was the common denominator for most of them?  No live at home fathers who married their mothers!  And often times these kids have different fathers, none of whom live with them.  That's the real problem and if the black churches aren't willing to stand up and be counted - nothing will change.