Missouri Has the Highest Black Homicide Rate in America

By Peggy Lowe April 26, 2023 

 

In what it calls a crisis, the Violence Policy Center’s new study says Black Missourians are killed at more than twice the national rate for the Black community, and 94% are killed by guns. It's the seventh year in a row that Missouri has ranked as the highest Black homicide rate in the country.

Missouri has the highest Black homicide rate in the U.S. for the seventh year in a row — and the violence is driven by guns, a new study found. The report, by the Washington-based gun control advocacy nonprofit Violence Policy Center, found that Black Missourians are killed at a rate of nearly 51 per 100,000 people — more than twice the national Black homicide rate and 8.5 times the overall homicide rate across the country. Josh Sugarmann, the center’s executive director, said Missouri has reached a crisis. The Black homicide victimization rate in Missouri increased by 46% from 2014 to 2020, he said.

“This is the 14th year in a row that Missouri has either ranked first or second in the nation for black homicide victimization,” he said. ..............Nationally, there were 9,753 Black homicide victims in the U.S. in 2020, a 29% increase from 2019, the study found.............To Read More....

My Take - Crime is surging throughout America's cities, and the Democrats own it, lock, stock and barrel, and they want to do two things.  Give these ravenous wolves a pass on their crimes by Soros funded insane leftist prosecutors, and arrest anyone who defends themselves against these monsters.  

This can't go on.  If the economy collapses, we're going to see the stable elements of society rebel, violently.   I'm expecting to see riots as this country has never known. 

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