Source (above and below): Violence Policy Center
Excerpt from Missouri Ranks #1 in Nation for Black Homicide Victimization. (Violence Policy Center)
Wisconsin ranks #2
Related reading:
Deadly disparities: African-Americans increasingly targeted as gun homicides spike. (Capital Times, 6/27/2018)
Of the 15 people killed by gunfire in a two-year spike starting in 2016, nine were black men. That’s 60 percent of the gun deaths in a city where blacks comprise just 7 percent of the population.
In those two years, not a single white man in Madison was killed by gunfire.
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