Crime rates reach historic lows in Texas, remain low nationally

[Winehole23]

Urban crime rates are at historic lows across the country, and in Texas they are still dropping, according to an analysis of crime rates in the 30 largest U.S cities.



Between 2014 and 2015, the five largest cities in Texas saw an average drop of 6.5 percent in the overall crime rate per 100,000 residents, according to the analysis by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. Among the nation’s top cities, crime rates remained stagnant during this time, dropping by only 0.1 percent.

https://www.texastribune.org/2016/04...-texas-cities/

[Winehole23]

In the 30 largest cities in the country overall, the report found, the rate of violent crimes rose by 3 percent and the murder rate grew by 13 percent. In Texas, violent crime remained steady and the murder rate decreased more than 1 percent.



The national increase in murders was attributed mainly to rises in Baltimore, Chicago and Washington, D.C.



“These serious increases seem to be localized, rather than part of a national pandemic, suggesting that community conditions remain the major factor,” the report states.

[Trill Clinton]

but but but chicago!!

[DarrinS]

but but but chicago!!

Chiraq

[TheSanityAnnex]

"national increase in murders was attributed mainly to rises in Baltimore, Chicago and Washington, D.C."

Asked for less policing, got less policing

[Pelicans78]

"national increase in murders was attributed mainly to rises in Baltimore, Chicago and Washington, D.C."

Asked for less policing, got less policing

These are democratic/liberal run urban cities, similar to New Orleans. Things don't seem to work out well in these types of cities.

[SnakeBoy]

but but but chicago!!

but but but gun control

[TheSanityAnnex]

From 2010 through 2012, the annual rate of homicide deaths among non-Hispanic white Americans was 2.5 per 100,000 persons, meaning that about one in every 40,000 white Americans is a homicide victim each year. By comparison, the rate of homicide deaths among non-Hispanic black Americans is 19.4 per 100,000 persons, or about 1 in 5,000 people per year.



Tarsha Moseley, left, Martha Watson and Toby Smith pray Thursday at a makeshift memorial near the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
ALEX SANZ / AP
JUN 18, 2015 AT 5:33 PM
Black Americans Are Killed At 12 Times The Rate Of People In Other Developed Countries


By Nate Silver
Filed under Charleston






“We as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries,” President Obama said earlier today, in reaction to the killing of nine people at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday. The details of the case, including the motivations of the suspect, Dylann Roof, are still unfolding. (We encourage you to read coverage broadly, including from our colleagues at ABC News.) But I wanted to add just a little bit of context to Obama’s remarks — how the U.S. compares to other countries overall, and how that comparison obscures a wide racial divide: Black Americans are far more likely to be homicide victims than white Americans.
We’re looking for good data on the incidence of mass shootings in different countries. There doesn’t appear to be all that much of it. But mass shootings represent a tiny fraction of homicides overall. And thanks to recent efforts by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which published data on homicide rates for almost every country, we can compare the overall homicide death rate in the U.S. to those elsewhere.
According to the CDC’s WONDER database, 5.2 out of every 100,000 Americans were homicide victims, on average, from 2010 to 2012. That’s not especially high by global standards; the median country had 4.7 homicide deaths per 100,000 persons over the same period,¹according to the UNODC data. The highest homicide rate in the world was in Honduras, with 87.9 homicide deaths per 100,000 persons.
But the homicide death rate in the U.S. — as Obama intimated — is more unusual in comparison with other highly developed countries. In the chart below, I’ve compared each country’s rate of homicide deaths against its Human Development Index (HDI), an overall measure of welfare and the standard of living.²

Whether the U.S.’s homicide rate qualifies as an outlier depends on exactly where you set the cutoff for an “advanced” country. Among countries with an HDI of .850 or higher — these are the 31 most well-off countries in the world — the U.S.’s rate of homicide deaths, 5.2 per 100,000 persons, is easily the highest. The next-highest are Brunei (2.0), Finland (2.0) and Israel (1.9). And the U.S. homicide death rate is more than three times higher than neighboring Canada (1.5).
The U.N., however, sets a slightly lower threshold for a developed country, describing all countries with an HDI of .800 or higher as having “very high human development.” Several countries with an HDI between .800 and .850 have a homicide death rate comparable to the U.S., including Lithuania (6.9), Argentina (5.5), Estonia (5.2), Cuba (4.2) and Latvia (3.8). The U.S.’s homicide death rate is also much lower than Mexico’s (22.0), though Mexico’s HDI is just .755.
But these comparisons neglect a massively important fact, and one that is especially pertinent in the wake of the Charleston shootings.
Extending on an analysis by the academic Kieran Healy, I calculated the rate of U.S. homicide deaths by racial group, based on the CDC WONDER data.³ From 2010 through 2012, the annual rate of homicide deaths among non-Hispanic white Americans was 2.5 per 100,000 persons, meaning that about one in every 40,000 white Americans is a homicide victim each year. By comparison, the rate of homicide deaths among non-Hispanic black Americans is 19.4 per 100,000 persons, or about 1 in 5,000 people per year.
Black Americans are almost eight times as likely as white ones to be homicide victims, in other words.
So for white Americans, the homicide death rate is not so much of an outlier. It’s only modestly higher than in Finland, Belgium or Greece, for instance, and lower than in Chile or Latvia.

But there’s no other highly industrialized country with a homicide death rate similar to the one black Americans experience. Their homicide death rate, 19.4 per 100,000 persons, is about 12 times higher than the average rate among all people⁴ in other developed countries.
Instead, you’d have to look toward developing countries such as Mexico (22.0), Brazil (23.6), Nigeria (20.0), Rwanda (23.1) or Myanmar (15.2) to find a comparable rate

[Spurminator]

These are democratic/liberal run urban cities, similar to New Orleans. Things don't seem to work out well in these types of cities.

What specific policies do you believe result in things not working out well?

[TheSanityAnnex]

What specific policies do you believe result in things not working out well?

Is it more policies or demographics?

[CosmicCowboy]

Brazen ers just hit me again. Alarm worked fine and called me and the police. They smashed the keypad and kept working at stripping my trucks. I guess all the police were busy on Fiesta stuff so I got there first. Looks like at least 10K of stuff is missing. ing thieves.

[Spurminator]

Is it more policies or demographics?

Sounds like you have an opinion on it, do tell.

[boutons_deux]

Brazen ers just hit me again. Alarm worked fine and called me and the police. They smashed the keypad and kept working at stripping my trucks. I guess all the police were busy on Fiesta stuff so I got there first. Looks like at least 10K of stuff is missing. ing thieves.

those white boys are persistent.

Do you have cameras?

[TheSanityAnnex]

Sounds like you have an opinion on it, do tell.

Africans are more prone to violence, and not just in the US. So is it policies worldwide or demographics?

[baseline bum]

Brazen ers just hit me again. Alarm worked fine and called me and the police. They smashed the keypad and kept working at stripping my trucks. I guess all the police were busy on Fiesta stuff so I got there first. Looks like at least 10K of stuff is missing. ing thieves.

Police are ing useless when you get broken into, part of why I'd have no problem emptying a clip into someone breaking into my house.

[Spurminator]

Africans are more prone to violence, and not just in the US. So is it policies worldwide or demographics?

I don't know if it's policies, that's why I asked. You should elaborate on this genetic African violence theory though.

[Winehole23]

TSA'll probably ignore you. Loves to speak authoritatively, hates posting his source material.

[boutons_deux]

Between 1992 and 1999, in Harris County, Texas, where Buck was tried and sentenced, the district attorney’s office was three and a half times more likely to seek the death penalty against black defendants than white defendants, and juries were more than twice as likely to impose death sentences on blacks, according to a study by criminologists.

Since 2004, all but three of eighteen defendants sentenced to death in Harris County have been African-American.

As the Buck pe ion says, the Supreme Court should review the case “to maintain public confidence that courts will not permit

an execution tainted by ‘expert’ testimony explicitly linking race to dangerousness.”

That’s especially so when ineffective counsel was responsible for that uncons utional connection.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-d...ocial_facebook

Houston, like all of East Texas is Deep South.

[Winehole23]

"national increase in murders was attributed mainly to rises in Baltimore, Chicago and Washington, D.C."

Asked for less policing, got less policing

you left out the very next sentence, which contextualizes the increases: "However, in absolute terms, murder rates are so low that a small numerical increase can lead to a large percentage change"

[Winehole23]

TSA: never at pains not to mislead.

[TheSanityAnnex]

I don't know if it's policies, that's why I asked. You should elaborate on this genetic African violence theory though.

http://static.visionofhumanity.org/s...t%202015_0.pdf

[TheSanityAnnex]

you left out the very next sentence, which contextualizes the increases: "However, in absolute terms, murder rates are so low that a small numerical increase can lead to a large percentage change"

Had nothing to do with my comment of asking for and receiving less policing.

[Spurminator]

http://static.visionofhumanity.org/s...t%202015_0.pdf

I skimmed the executive summary and didn't see anything about African heritage being a determinant of violent tendencies worldwide. Want to point out the specific relevant findings for us so we don't have to look through 99 pages of what seems to be a report on violence by region, not by race?

[TheSanityAnnex]

I skimmed the executive summary and didn't see anything about African heritage being a determinant of violent tendencies worldwide. Want to point out the specific relevant findings for us so we don't have to look through 99 pages of what seems to be a report on violence by region, not by race?

Many regions are dominated by race.

[TheSanityAnnex]

From 2010 through 2012, the annual rate of homicide deaths among non-Hispanic white Americans was 2.5 per 100,000 persons, meaning that about one in every 40,000 white Americans is a homicide victim each year. By comparison, the rate of homicide deaths among non-Hispanic black Americans is 19.4 per 100,000 persons, or about 1 in 5,000 people per year.



Tarsha Moseley, left, Martha Watson and Toby Smith pray Thursday at a makeshift memorial near the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
ALEX SANZ / AP
JUN 18, 2015 AT 5:33 PM
Black Americans Are Killed At 12 Times The Rate Of People In Other Developed Countries


By Nate Silver
Filed under Charleston






“We as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries,” President Obama said earlier today, in reaction to the killing of nine people at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday. The details of the case, including the motivations of the suspect, Dylann Roof, are still unfolding. (We encourage you to read coverage broadly, including from our colleagues at ABC News.) But I wanted to add just a little bit of context to Obama’s remarks — how the U.S. compares to other countries overall, and how that comparison obscures a wide racial divide: Black Americans are far more likely to be homicide victims than white Americans.
We’re looking for good data on the incidence of mass shootings in different countries. There doesn’t appear to be all that much of it. But mass shootings represent a tiny fraction of homicides overall. And thanks to recent efforts by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which published data on homicide rates for almost every country, we can compare the overall homicide death rate in the U.S. to those elsewhere.
According to the CDC’s WONDER database, 5.2 out of every 100,000 Americans were homicide victims, on average, from 2010 to 2012. That’s not especially high by global standards; the median country had 4.7 homicide deaths per 100,000 persons over the same period,¹according to the UNODC data. The highest homicide rate in the world was in Honduras, with 87.9 homicide deaths per 100,000 persons.
But the homicide death rate in the U.S. — as Obama intimated — is more unusual in comparison with other highly developed countries. In the chart below, I’ve compared each country’s rate of homicide deaths against its Human Development Index (HDI), an overall measure of welfare and the standard of living.²

Whether the U.S.’s homicide rate qualifies as an outlier depends on exactly where you set the cutoff for an “advanced” country. Among countries with an HDI of .850 or higher — these are the 31 most well-off countries in the world — the U.S.’s rate of homicide deaths, 5.2 per 100,000 persons, is easily the highest. The next-highest are Brunei (2.0), Finland (2.0) and Israel (1.9). And the U.S. homicide death rate is more than three times higher than neighboring Canada (1.5).
The U.N., however, sets a slightly lower threshold for a developed country, describing all countries with an HDI of .800 or higher as having “very high human development.” Several countries with an HDI between .800 and .850 have a homicide death rate comparable to the U.S., including Lithuania (6.9), Argentina (5.5), Estonia (5.2), Cuba (4.2) and Latvia (3.8). The U.S.’s homicide death rate is also much lower than Mexico’s (22.0), though Mexico’s HDI is just .755.
But these comparisons neglect a massively important fact, and one that is especially pertinent in the wake of the Charleston shootings.
Extending on an analysis by the academic Kieran Healy, I calculated the rate of U.S. homicide deaths by racial group, based on the CDC WONDER data.³ From 2010 through 2012, the annual rate of homicide deaths among non-Hispanic white Americans was 2.5 per 100,000 persons, meaning that about one in every 40,000 white Americans is a homicide victim each year. By comparison, the rate of homicide deaths among non-Hispanic black Americans is 19.4 per 100,000 persons, or about 1 in 5,000 people per year.
Black Americans are almost eight times as likely as white ones to be homicide victims, in other words.
So for white Americans, the homicide death

But there’s no other highly industrialized country with a homicide death rate similar to the one black Americans experience. Their homicide death rate, 19.4 per 100,000 persons, is about 12 times higher than the average rate among all people⁴ in other developed countries.
Instead, you’d have to look toward developing countries such as Mexico (22.0), Brazil (23.6), Nigeria (20.0), Rwanda (23.1) or Myanmar (15.2) to find a comparable rate

Spurm---what's your explanation for what we are seeing in the United States? There are more poor whites on welfare than blacks. Why the extreme difference in homicide rates? More policies or cultural?