Another year, another FBI crime report. The FBI recently released their crime data for 2017. I wantrd look up the murder statistics, and see how much they are similar to those of previous years. I previously did blogs on the 2015, and 2016 data.
When it comes to murders in which the race of the offender was known 6,444 of those offenders were black, and 5,125 were white. So once again there were more black murderers than white despite the fact that there are 5-6 times as many white people in the country as their are black people. When adding in the 314 in the Others category, blacks made up 54.2 percent of murderers, which is right in line with data from previous years. So we can assume that 13% of the population was responsible for 54% of the murders. Also if you go by ethnicity Hispanics made up 19.2% of offenders, which would mean there were overrepresented, but not nearly as bad as black people.
Looking at single victim/single offender data, if we don't count those instances in which the race of the offender was unknown, 81.8% of whites murdered were murdered by other whites, and 90.3% of blacks murdered were murdered by other blacks. This data matches up with what I found from the two previous years. Another interesting tidbit from this data is that there were 576 cases of a white victim with a black offender, and only 264 the other way around. Despite being outnumbered heavily by whites, blacks still managed to kill whites more, if we go by the single victim/single offender numbers. The ratio is 2.18/1, and like the other data, it is right in line with what I saw in the previous years. That doesn't quite fit the BLM narrative, but this is consistent. That's a big problem. The numbers aren't just some fluke, it displays a consistent pattern of much higher murder rates among black people. Despite the narrative put out there by the mainstream that constantly show black people as being the victims of whites, the data does not back that up. It hasn't backed that up for any year for which I've seen the stats from. There are similar problems with other violent crime as well.
Murder rate increased slightly in 2017 from 5.3 per 100,000 to 5.4. It's the third consecutive year of an increase in the murder rate, but this was the smallest increase in that span.
Links
Offenders Data
Single Victim/Single Offender
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls
