UNDERNEWS: White on white crime

January 3, 2016

White on white crime

You hear a lot about black on black crime but little about white on white crime. For example, according to the FBI, while 91% of black murder victims were killed by blacks in 2011, 83% of white murder victims were killed by whites. In other words, murder is segregated like many other things in our society.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Why break it down this way, it's silly and distracts us away from speaking of the real criminals. Let's discuss Wall Street on EVERYBODY crime.; January 4, 2016 at 12:58 PM
Coal Warrior said...: Interesting stats, but the real question is what social factors cause people to kill; January 5, 2016 at 12:03 AM

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