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Steve Sailor – The Unz Review Sept 27, 2021

The FBI has finally released its 2020 Uniform Crime Reporting data from most (but, as usual, not all) of the law enforcement agencies in the U.S. I concentrate on murders, the most accurately reported crime.

Murders and non-negligent manslaughters were up a record-crushing 29.4%, in-line with my January 6, 2021 estimate: “Therefore, the national figure is perhaps in the 25 to 30 percent growth range, double the worst year previously recorded, 1968.”

In the FBI’s expanded homicide data, the black share of known murder offenders increased to a new record of 56.52%.

But, the big news is that while the number of known murder offenders (who can therefore be tabulated racially) increased by 17.3 percent, the number of Unknown murder offenders grew 36.0%. Traditionally, murders in black neighborhoods tend to have the lowest clearance rate, what with snitches getting stitches.

So the black share of murder offenders likely went up even more.

As usual, the FBI stats sloppily lump together Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites into a white supercategory that is out of sync with how most government agencies think about race and ethnicity over the last generation. Hence, I just look at black vs. nonblack (white, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, etc).

With the new 2020 Census, a somewhat sizable delta has opened up between the percentage of people who say they are racially black and nothing else (12.4%, including black Hispanics) versus people who say they are either all black or also black and something else (14.2%).

Which definition of black are the cops using when they charge somebody with murder? I dunno … probably some use one way, some another.

If you use the more expansive latter figure for the at least partially racially black population of 14.2%, then the ratio of black (and blackish) known murder offenders to nonblack known murder offenders in 2020 was 8.4 to 1. (If use use the more restrictive black-only figure of 12.4%, you get a black to non-black ratio of 9.8 to 1.)

Incredibly, even the the lower (at least part-black) ratio of 8.4 to one is a little higher than the the per capita male to female known murder offender ratio of 7.5 to 1.

(I’m guessing that women get away undetected with murder less often than men do, since they seldom rob strangers and a large fraction of their murders are domestics. So the male to female ratio is probably higher among unknown offenders than among known offenders.)

I wonder if blacks average more murder offenders per murder than do nonblacks? E.g., are all three guys in the car charged with the drive-by murder? White killers tend to be solitary decision-makers — in most levels of white society, “Hey, let’s go murder a guy” is not a popular suggestion. But, if true, how that would impact these ratios is a hard question.

FBI 2020 Uniform Crime Reporting: Murder and Non-Negligent Manslaughter Offenders
2019 2019 2020 2020 Chg % Chg #
% of Known % of Known
Total Murders 16,669 21,570 29.4% 4,901
Murders Reported in Expanded Homicide Data 14,548 17,815 22.5% 3,267
Total Murder Offenders reported 17,179 21,061 22.6% 3,882
Unknown Murder Offenders 4,862 6,612 36.0% 1,750
Known Murder Offenders 12,317 100.00% 14,449 100.00% 17.3% 2,132
Black or African American 6,809 55.28% 8,166 56.52% 19.9% 1,357
White (incl most Hispanics) 5,146 41.78% 5,866 40.60% 14.0% 720
American Indian or Alaska Native 178 1.45% 215 1.49% 20.8% 37
Asian 143 1.16% 154 1.07% 7.7% 11
Native Hawaiian 41 0.33% 48 0.33% 17.1% 7
All Known Nonblack Offenders 5,508 6,283 775
All Known Black Offenders 6,809 8,166 1,357
Share of Population: Black Alone 12.4% 12.4%
Share of Population: Some Black 14.2% 14.2%
Per Capita Known Murder Offender Ratio: Black Alone to Nonblack 9.3 9.8
Ratio: Some Black to Nonblack 8.0 8.4
Unknown Offender Sex 6,242
Known Offender Sex 14,819 100.00%
Male 13,078 88.25%
Female 1,741 11.75%
Ratio: Male to Female 7.5
# of police depts sending in Expanded Homicide Data 15,334 18,674 15,875 18,623 541
% Coverage 82.1% 85.2%

The percentage of police departments that submitted expanded homicide data in 2020 was up 3 percentage points over 2019, but still missed 15% of LEOs.

For example, although Louisiana has had the highest murder rate for the last 30 years, some analysts suspect that if more Mississippi PDs bothered to send in their numbers, Mississippi would be #1 with a bullet.

Here are the statistics on the number of victims:

FBI 2020 Uniform Crime Reporting: Victims of Murder and Non-Negligent Manslaughter
2019 2019 2020 2020 Chg % Chg #
% of Known % of Known
Total Murders 16,669 21,570 29.4% 4,901
Murders Reported in Expanded Homicide Data 14,548 17,815 22.5% 3,267
Total Murder Victims reported 14,548 17,815 22.5% 3,267
Unknown Murder Victims 232 320 37.9% 88
Known Murder Victims 14,316 100.00% 17,495 100.00% 22.2% 3,179
Black or African American 7,777 54.3% 9,941 56.8% 27.8% 2,164
White (incl most Hispanics) 6,093 42.6% 7,043 40.3% 15.6% 950
American Indian or Alaska Native 179 1.3% 240 1.4% 34.1% 61
Asian 240 1.7% 236 1.3% -1.7% -4
Native Hawaiian 27 0.2% 35 0.2% 29.6% 8
All Known Nonblack Victims 6,539 45.7% 7,554 43.2% 15.5% 1,015
All Known Black Victims 7,777 54.3% 9,941 56.8% 27.8% 2,164
Share of Population: Black Alone 12.4% 12.4%
Share of Population: Some Black 14.2% 14.2%
Ratio: Black Alone to Nonblack 9.0 10.0
Ratio: Some Black to Nonblack 7.7 8.5
Unknown Victim Sex 31 37
Known Victim Sex 14,517 100.00% 17,778 100.00%
Male 11367 78.30% 14,194 79.84%
Female 3150 21.70% 3,584 20.16%
Ratio: Male to Female 3.6 4.0
# of police depts sending in Expanded Homicide Data 15,334 18,674 15,875 18,623 541
% Coverage 82.1% 85.2%

Murder victims went up less in the 85% of police departments that submitted Expanded Homicide Data to the FBI (+22.2%) than nationwide (+29.4%). Among those departments, black victims were up by 2,164 dead bodies compared to an increase of 1,015 murder victims across all nonblacks.

So blacks made up 68.1% of incremental murder victims in 2020, the year of the Racial Reckoning.

Heckuva a job, Black Lives Matter!

Interestingly, the number of Asian murder victims fell ever so slightly in 2020 over 2019, despite all the talk about Trump mentioning the “Chinese flu” causing a wave of anti-Asian violence.

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