Black women are six times more likely to be killed than white women, data reveals

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The paper included a decade’s worth of data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention among Black women ages 25 to 44 across 30 states.

In the U.S., Black adult women are six times more likely to be killed than their white counterparts, troubling new data reveals.

A paper published Thursday in The Lancet medical journal analyzed homicide rates of Black women ages 25 to 44 across 30 states. The data was collected between 1999 and 2020 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Vital Statistics System.

Homicides were classified in this study as death by shooting, piercing, cutting and other forms of violence. Racial disparities varied among states; in Wisconsin, for example, Black women were 20 times more likely to be killed than white women. Black women living in Midwestern and Northeastern states were also more likely to be killed by a firearm, the paper found.

The study was designed to provide more comprehensive data about homicide rates among Black women and fill in the gaps in the existing literature, said Bernadine Waller, the paper’s lead author and a postdoctoral psychiatry research fellow at the Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center.

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The study was designed to provide more comprehensive data about homicide rates among Black women ...

While researchers did not identify the causes behind the staggering difference.

I wonder if this is because the killers are more likely to be black?

It's kind of simple really either the reason blacks are killed more is because they are poorer in which case race is completely irrelevant. Or blacks get killed more than whites then the reason isn't who's being killed but who's doing the killing. That's the issue that needs addressing.

Investigating the victims seems to be putting the cart before the horse.

Or do black people just get convicted of murder more often than white people?

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/report-black-people-7-5-times-more-likely-to-be-wrongfully-convicted-of-murder-than-whites-risk-even-greater-if-victim-was-white

Nah.

3,200 innocent defendants exonerated in the United States since 1989

There was a total of 21,156 reported homicide cases in the U.S. in 2022

Yea with numbers like that it must be wrongfully convicted. Come on, you're just trying to use stats to prove a wrong point. That's a rounding error

Sorry, why do you think that only the exonerated are innocent? Also, why do you think a black person being exonerated has anything to do with a white person not being convicted at all for the same crime I don't know.

I struggle to believe that anything close to the majority of that 21k somehow ends up being innocent.

Again- the question is not how many black people who are found guilty of murder are innocent, it's how many white people are found not guilty for the exact same crime with the same level or greater evidence against the defendant. Or not even charged in the first place.

I have never heard of a black person having affluenza. In fact, the only black person I have ever heard of being let off for spurious reasons like 'affluenza' is OJ Simpson and only because he was super rich and had like 8 high-paid lawyers vs. 2 deputy district attorneys.

Found the black on "black crime is the real problem" ,racist.

I bet u don't even know it being racist rn...