US Department of Justice | Office of Justice Programs | Bureau of Justice Statistics:
Homicide Trends in the US: Trends by Race
- Blacks were 6 times more likely to be murdered than whites in 2002;
- Blacks were 7 times more lkely to commit murder than whites in 2002;
- Black victims are greatly over represented in homicides involving drugs. Compared with the overall involvement of blacks as victims, blacks are less often the victims of sex-related homicides, workplace killings, and homicide by poison.
Although slightly less true now than before, most murders are intraracial: [From 1976 to 2002]
- 86% of white victims were killed by whites ;
- 94% of black victims were killed by blacks .
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