created: 2023-10-18 17:15
updated: 2023-10-18 17:21
The claim that 13% of the black population committed half of the murders in the US is way off (i.e. Racism); it's actually 0.010%.
FBI numbers for 2017 show that black people committed 5,025 murders of a total of 9,468, which amounts to 53%.
Assuming that each single murder was committed by a different person, 5,025 of the 47 million black people in the US would be murderers. In other words, 99.989497% of black people did not commit murder. On the side of white people, 99.994923% did not commit murder either.
Black on Black murder rate is 89%.
White on White murder rate is 81%.
Bureau of Justice statistics conclude that