Study: Murders among black youths on rise
By LARA JAKES – 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of young black men and teenagers who either killed or were killed in shootings has risen at an alarming rate since 2000, a new study shows.
The study, to be released Monday by criminologists at Northeastern University in Boston, comes as FBI data is showing that murders have leveled off nationwide.
Not so for black teens, the youngest of whom saw dramatic increases in shooting deaths, the Northeastern report concluded.
Last year, for example, 426 black males between the ages of 14 and 17 were killed in gun crimes, the study shows. That marked a 40 percent increase from 2000.
Similarly, an estimated 964 in the same age group committed fatal shootings in 2007 — a 38 percent increase from seven years earlier. The number of offenders is estimated because not all crimes are reported, said Northeastern criminologist James Alan Fox, who co-authored the study.
"Although the overall rate of homicide in the United States remains relatively low, the landscape is quite different for countless Americans living, and some dying, in violence-infested neighborhoods," Fox said.
Seizing on President-elect Barack Obama's incoming administration as an opportunity for more funding, Fox added: "There is an urgency for reinvestment in children and families. In essence, we need a bailout for kids at risk."
Obama will be the nation's first black president.
The study partly blamed Bush administration grant cuts to local police and juvenile crime prevention programs for the surge in crimes by young black men and teens. Incoming Vice President Joe Biden has promised funding to put 50,000 new police officers on the street to help bring violent crime rates back to a decade-long annual decline that began in the mid-1990s, after then-President Bill Clinton provided local officials with money to hire 100,000 new cops.
Nationwide, the number of murders and violent crimes overall dropped last year after increasing in 2005 and 2006, according to annual data compiled by the FBI. Overall, however, murders have risen by about 8 percent between 2000 and 2007.
The FBI reported 10,067 arrests in murder and non-negligent manslaughter cases in 2007. Half of the people arrested — 5,078 — were black. Almost 10 percent of black people arrested for murder were under age 18, the FBI data show.
The number of young white men who committed gun-related homicides also rose over the same period, the Northeastern study showed, but not as dramatically. In 2007, an estimated 384 white males age 14 to 17 shot someone to death, up from 368 in 2000.
The numbers of homicides committed by women and teenage girls — whether black or white — were relatively few, the Northeastern study found.
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Much of what they did not invent was actually useful, such as systems of measurement, written language, and much more.
Yet you're looking at it all in the long run, all in hindsight.
Nobody invents something that is not immediately useful to them. What would be the point if I invested in anything and got no returns?
Why would anybody invent something that wasn't totally useful for them?
Egyptians had wheels.
Where did I say that they did not?
They had wheels, but their wheels weren't useful for dragging large things like blocks of limestone because they were made of stone or wood, and those types of wheels tend to not be very smooth. As a result, when you're moving anything large with those wheels, it'll get stuck on a spot where the wheel isn't smooth and you'll have to really force it to keep it going.
It was simpler to just drag it with a sled. And that's exactly what the Egyptians did with heavy things like limestone.
And didn't Africans have types of cattle?
Parts of Africa did, but they were pretty rare. Cattle was hardly common place in Sub-Saharan Africa until recently. As a result, without the prevalence of cattle, there wasn't much use for a wheel.
A tribe in East Africa worships cattle. Right now there are 20 million cattle in Africa (Not including South Africa).
Right now there are 20 million cattle in Africa (Not including South Africa).
Why are you talking about the present when the discussion is obviously on Africa's past?
Cattle has always been imported into Africa, most likely at varying levels over time. You'd probably see things like cattle and the wheel common in places in Sub-Saharan Africa like on the Red Sea coast, but in the interior of Africa, they weren't nearly so common, and hence why they never developed a wheel.
And notice their modern wheels. It wouldn't be so easy with stone or wooden wheels, which is what they used 5000 years ago. It's about as easy as dragging it on a big sled, which is what the Egyptians did to haul all the big blocks of limestone and stuff to their pyramid sites.
It wouldn't be so easy with stone or wooden wheels, which is what they used 5000 years ago. It's about as easy as dragging it on a big sled, which is what the Egyptians did to haul all the big blocks of limestone and stuff to their pyramid sites.
And didn't Africans have types of cattle? They lick the menstrual juices of cattle for religious purposes nowadays.
Where did they come from?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_buffalo
A tribe in East Africa worships cattle.
These guys have an idea:
And notice their modern wheels.
Some Negro once said in my school that her ancestors didn't invent the wheel because they didn't have horses like the Europeans. That's actually not a very bad excuse, you know. Remember, the pre-Columbian Americans had relatively advanced and developed societies (more or less on the level of 3rd millenium BC Mesopotamia with some differences - such as Mesoamerica having larger and more developed urban centers, but Mesopotamia having bronze working), and unlike them, they didn't invent the wheel. Why? Without horses, donkeys, and the like, how much use would a wheel even have?
That's actually not a very bad excuse, you know.
Remember, the pre-Columbian Americans had relatively advanced and developed societies (more or less on the level of 3rd millenium BC Mesopotamia with some differences - such as Mesoamerica having larger and more developed urban centers, but Mesopotamia having bronze working), and unlike them, they didn't invent the wheel. Why? Without horses, donkeys, and the like, how much use would a wheel even have?
100% of blacks are poor and they all need to join gangs and murder each other.
wow.......
Some Negro once said in my school that her ancestors didn't invent the wheel because they didn't have horses like the Europeans.
They should just kill each other off.
Poverty was also created by whites to keep the black man down.
Ugh
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