![]() In A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America (2020) Elliot Currie, a professor of criminology, law, and society at the University of California, Irvine, adds startling perspective: Since 2000, the overall homicide rate for black Americans has averaged seven times that of white Americans among men, the black-white disparity is more than nine to one. In 2020, black homicide increased 30 percent in the wake of unrest over the death of George Floyd during arrest by Minneapolis police, and police shootings of Jacob Blake and Breonna Taylor. Contrary to media hysteria, interracial homicide is relatively rare-only about 14 percent of the total, and about 69 percent of that 14 percent is black-on-white. population yet suffered 49 percent of homicides, even after the much-noted urban crime drop of the 1990s. Black Americans make up only 14 percent of the U.S. Across all races, the United States saw 363,045 homicides over the same period. ![]() ![]() According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 178,583 black Americans died by homicide from 2001 through 2020. ![]()
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