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Two-thirds of those are suicides and most of the rest are inner city gang violence based in the war on drugs.
by patrickmay 9y ago
Two-thirds of those are suicides and most of the rest are inner city gang violence based in the war on drugs.
- soperj 9y agoso still 10000 to 15000 (depends on who's stat i'm going by here). That's a small city wiped off the map every single year.
- maxerickson 9y agoHomicide statistics are rather incomplete, but they don't really paint a picture where "most" are obviously explained by "inner city gang violence": https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015/tables/expanded_homicide_data_table_11_murder_circumstances_by_weapon_2015.xls https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
- patrickmay 9y ago80% of the remainder are gang related: http://jpfo.org/articles-assd03/gun-stats-perspective.htm http://jpfo.org/articles-assd03/gun-stats-perspective.htm
- maxerickson 9y agoThe CDC document they link doesn't seem to make any statements about gang vs non gang homicides. I've read/searched for a couple minutes (the word "gang" doesn't appear in the pdf).