Tuesday, September 27, 2016

FBI Murder Data For 2015

The FBI released their crime statistics for 2015, and murders have gone up 10.8%.  This is not a surprise to me, as I read an article about murder rates going up in major cities.  I haven't read much on possible explanations for this, as it goes against what has been the general pattern for around 2 decades.


https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015/tables/expanded_homicide_data_table_6_murder_race_and_sex_of_vicitm_by_race_and_sex_of_offender_2015.xls

The link above shows a  table that looks at incidence of single victim/single offender homicide.  Based on the data on this chart here are some stats.

White Offenders-2897
Black Offenders-2934

500 whites killed by black offenders
229 blacks killed by white offenders

3167 white victims   2574 killed by whites   81.3
2664 black victims  2380 killed by blacks   89.3

It's interesting that according to the table blacks killed whites at over 2 times as much as vice versa.  As someone who looked at data from previous years this is no surprise.   It's been that way for a while.  Each year I've checked it's been that way.  Mainstream media coverage could lead you to believe that it's the other way around.  Incidence of blacks killing whites doesn't get the same attention.

According to the 2015 census white people made up 77.1% of the U.S. population, while blacks made up 13.3%.  Based on that data there are about 5.8 times as many white people in the country as black.  Both the census data, and FBI data doesn't count hispanic as a race, and white hispanics are counted as white, black hsipanics as black, etc.  Based on that data blacks are 5.9 times as likely to commit murders as whites, but that's not the complete data.  I'll get to the more complete data later.  There is also the question of black on black crime, or in this case black on black murder.  About 89% of blacks who were murdered were murdered by other blacks according to this data, while 81% of whites murdered were murdered by other whites.  Those percentage are deceiving, because they don't look at the rate in which each happened.  Black were 5.4 times more likely to kill another, at least in single victim/single offender homicides.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015/tables/expanded_homicide_data_table_3_murder_offenders_by_age_sex_and_race_2015.xls

That gets me to the above table, which looks at Murder offenders.  There were 5620 black offenders, and 4636 white offenders in cases where the race of the offender was known.  Blacks made up 53.3% of those offenders.  That's 13.3% of the country committing  around 53% of the murders.  That is a huge over representation.  A black person was 7 times more likely to murder than a white person.


https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015/tables/expanded_homicide_data_table_2_murder_victims_by_age_sex_and_race_2015.xls

The third link is to a table that gives data on murder victims.  There were 7039 black victims, and 5854 white victims.  Unlike single victim/single offender data, this doesn't break down the race of those whom killed them.


What if I applied the percentages from my first link, when it came to how the percentage of black murder victims who were killed by blacks, and the percentage of white murder victims killed by whites.  That would translate to 6289 blacks killed by blacks 4758 whites killed by whites.  Those are just estimates, though it gives you an idea of how more complete data victim/offender data would look.


Thursday, September 15, 2016

More About This Colin Kaepernick Guy

What's going on with Colin Kaepernick?  It's about more than his protest of the National Anthem, which if you go by his reasoning, is pretty much a protest of the country.  It's how he has become a radical.  The transformation happened before he protested the anthem.  He was showing what he was about on his social media sites, but people weren't paying attention.  If you don't believe me check out his twitter, and instagram accounts.  They are full of controversial, and often racist shit.  He has jumped on the BLM bandwagon, and his beliefs, often times, goes right along with theirs, even when it's proven wrong.  According to his instagram he doesn't believe Sandra Bland committed suicide.  He likes the original Black Panthers, and apparently Assata Shakur as well.  He believes that Martin Luther King's murder was part of a government conspiracy  according to this post https://www.instagram.com/p/BAs7z23NBMs/?hl=en.  He has posted an anti police message from Malcolm X, and he likes Nat Turner.  He might not like integration that much, but I'm not sure about that.  Pretty strange for a guy who looks more white than black, and was adopted by a white couple.   Some people think the media is going tough on him, but I think the media is going easy on him.  Maybe it's the soft bigotry of low expectations, or maybe something else.  If you want to go after him, you can go further than some socks with pigs in police hats.  His twitter and instagram accounts give you plenty more to criticize him for.  Some people believe that it was his girlfriend Nessa Diab who was changed his ways.  She is a black muslim woman, who is BLM. Colin converted to Islam, and is now protesting, and speaking on police brutality.  I don't know how true it is, but it's realistic to think that she was influential in changing his mindset.

The socks with the pigs in police hats was one thing.  Even the media couldn't agree with him on that one.  They have mainly tried take the focus away from that.  It happened before he protested the anthem.  Then there was that shirt with the image of Malcolm X, and Fidel Castro.  Just after protesting the anthem because of the perceived oppression of non whites in this country, he wore a shirt with an image of a man who really oppressed people.  It seems like the decision of a person lacking in knowledge, or just lacking in self awareness.

 Kaepernick hasn't been commenting much since his protest.  He is being careful, and trying to look out for his image.  The problem is, before he even protested, he already showed his hand on his social media accounts.  He has gotten away with it, but I would really like for someone to ask him the tough questions.  Right now they are so afraid of offending black people, and I can understand that.  People who have criticized him have been called all types of shit.  Blacks who have gone against his stance have been called coons, and whites have been considered racist for it.  If anything he is being protected by a mostly white media, which is very different from how many activists/complainers thought it would be.  In fact it's different from how many of them portray it.  Some of one act as if he's getting it worse than Ryan Locte.  Kap's jersey is the highest selling in the league, and he's a backup quarterback that hasn't been good in a few years. It would be nice to give him the benefit of the doubt, but if I am being honest, I can't.  Despite how white he looks, and the fact that his adoptive parents are white, i will say this.  (Kanye West voice) Colin Kaepernick don't like white people.