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."
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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Where's the love?
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Fatal stabbings have hit a peak in the UK as well according to the Conservatives, claiming that there have been 277 stabbing deaths in 2007-8, the highest since records began in 1977.
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Yeah, that's what We need. More friggin Cops.
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All stats and numbers. Highlight the underlying causes like poverty, unemployment and lack of education and that will be news. Also through in the revolving door and then we could move on from there. We don't need no more cops.
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Just saw it was a ap story.
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The number of shootings and stabbings among black youths is also on the rise in Britain. Time and again media report contains the statement that the murder is being investigated by 'Operation Trident' the police unit specialising in 'black-on-black' crime. We have discovered that black youths are more likely to see a career in drug dealing, car theft and protection racketeering than go to college and train for a proper job. The sense of alienation from the society they grew up in accounts for this trend and their rejection of the decent values held by the rest of us. As time goes on, this situation can only get worse. In major cities such as London, Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol, the streets are teeming with gangs of black youths posturing and glaring at each other. From time to time, gunshots are heard and they flee, often leaving one behind, dead. This is the reality in Britain today where countless white people are stopped and searched for holding a camera - accused of being a paedophile or a suspected terrorist - while gangs of armed black youths walk the streets with impunity. Sometimes holding their guns in their hands as they walk. Welcome to Britain.
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- DavidMurray
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Great post. Thank you for your sincere awareness.
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- keithponder
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Wow, well I'm no racist, but I don't see how this can come as a surprise to anyone. Here's an interesting statistic: in 2000 there were 791,600 black men in prison and 603,032 enrolled in college. In 1980, there were 143,000 black men in prison and 463,700 enrolled in college. Wonder why that is.
Why don't we work on education and motivation before we turn to stronger police, hm?
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dammit, people. stop killing each other.
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young blacks have this "respect" thing and is willing to kill for it. this includes looking at them the "wrong" way, looking at their woman, checking out their 300.00 tennis shoes, selling drugs on their corner, bumping into them-- these are but a few of the things that can get you killed by the youth of today.
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The answer is not more cops. It is in addressing the causes. THERE IS NOTHING MORE DANGEROUS THAN A MAN WITH NOTHING TO LOSE. It is number 1 in my personal rules of life.number 2: never argue with a man with a gun (you can sometimes argue with a woman)
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- phoenixtoo
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I can promise You that as a Senior I will not allow Myself to be victimized by anyone. I am armed and well prepared and trained to take any action needed including and up to deadly force. I know that the Cops are not here to protect Me. And I take issue with this outcry for more of them. That is not the answer. I believe that L.A. has a viable and positive program to deal with Criminals, and Illegals that are parts of the Gang World. We hit em where it hurts, in the wallet and property confiscations of those who would harbor them. I say ship em into the Military. Even though the Military does not want them I would rather see that then Marines in our neighborhoods with Weapons and Tanks. They don't deserve the Freedoms that regular Citizens are paying for with their own. Convicted of Gang activity and violence? off to the Military Camp for You. No Freedom! No Individual Rights, No buffing up in the prison and doing Your Gang Shit in there. There is a way to do this. It's called March or Die Fucker! I certainly don't care, why would anyone?
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Thanks,, George W, for once again showing your stupendous leadership when it comes to how to spend money
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I would love to see the numbers on youth violence in general. Not to downplay this situation at all, because it is obviously a point of concern, but I am often skeptical that pinpoint a particular social group, especially when it comes to Black Americans. More so, in light of all of the violence that has happened across America in the last year...
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More police will have absolutely no effect on the homocide rate...more education & decent job oppurtunities would have an enormous lowering effect....
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Yes, let's spend more of my tax money to try to keep blacks from killing each other. I, on the other hand, a white man working in downtown Memphis, am on my own. Feel free to kill me at will. And anyone wonders why gun sales went through the roof when Obama was elected.
