Homicides in Denver hit 9-year high

[Monky]

Not a racist comment when gang attributed murders are 46% of the total count

Actually yes it was. It does not state that one minority homicide rate is higher than the other. If you read the list, you're hard pressed to say black or brown on a lot of them. Gang related yes... One color no. Still a racist fucking comment


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[funkymonkey1111]

Actually yes it was. It does not state that one minority homicide rate is higher than the other. If you read the list, you're hard pressed to say black or brown on a lot of them. Gang related yes... One color no. Still a racist fucking comment


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ok, is the black homicide victims at 58% racist?

[ray1970]

ok, is the black homicide victims at 58% racist?

Depends. Where they killed by white people?

[Skip]

The race stats are in the story which also mentions Denver's gang problem. Gang related homicides make up 23 of the 50, so nearly half like Funky said. I don't know how they made that determination because "snitches get stiches" and such.

By race (from the story)...

28 (56%) Black
12 (24%) Hispanic
10 (20%) White

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Denver

Population of Denver: ~650K

65% White
31% Hispanic (overlapping)
11% Black

Rates, derived by population, per 100,000...

2.367 White
5.955 Hispanic
39.161 Black

Hispanic rate is 2.5x higher than White (overlapping population numbers increase the denominator, lowering this rate)
Black rate is 16.5x higher than White, 6.5x higher than Hispanic.

My numbers could be off and so could my sources. So assume some error that probably doesn't change the overall discrepancies.

If people (Liberals, politicians, Demanding Mothers, etc...) were genuinely concerned about violence (gun or otherwise) this would be examined. My personal belief is that this has to do with culture and values than race. But that examination is often called "racist" as well because the culture identifies along racial boundaries (which is actually racist but seldom is that mentioned).

Saddest thing in this story is a couple of the names on the list...

Javion Johnson, 1
Karla Garcia, 1

So we can't talk about this because "racist?"