The Myth of Black-on-Black Crime

[Jenoch]

26. Most victims of gun crimes

know those who shot them, regardless of race.

Victims of gun violence who did not previously know their shooters, as in a family member or friend of some kind, are much more rare.

There are a dispropotionate number of shootings in north Minneapolis where the victim did not know the shooter as either a family member or friend of some sort. These shootings result in innocent people dying, such as a 3 year old sleeping on his grandmother's couch. This happened to be a black on black crime.

I do not know the statistics nationwide. I do know this sort of crime is happening too frequently in both north Minneapolis and south Minneapolis.

"There’s no such thing as “black-on-black” crime. Yes, from 1976 to 2005, 94 percent of black victims were killed by black offenders, but that racial exclusivity was also true for white victims of violent crime—86 percent were killed by white offenders. Indeed, for the large majority of crimes, you’ll find that victims and offenders share a racial identity, or have some prior relationship to each other."

This statement contradicts itself.