Blacks Must Stand Against Violence

Summary


Last year, among the nation's 10 largest cities, Philadelphia had the highest murder rate, with 406 victims. This year could easily top last year's, with 240 murders so far.

Other cities such as Baltimore, Detroit and Washington, D.C., with large black populations, experience the nation's highest rates of murder and violent crime. This high murder rate is, and has been, predominantly a black problem.

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Blacks Must Stand Against Violence

According to Bureau of Justice statistics, between 1976 and 2005, blacks, although 13 percent of the population, committed more than 52 percent of the nation's homicides and were ...

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