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93 percent of black homicide victims are killed by other blacks.
Blacks committed 52 percent of homicides between 1980 and 2008, despite composing just 13 percent of the population.
In Chicago, IL, blacks committed 76 percent of all homicides, despite composing 35 percent of the city's population. Blacks also accounted for 78 percent of all juvenile arrests.
In New York City, blacks committed 75 percent of all shootings, 70 percent of all robberies, and 66 percent of all violent crime despite only composing 23 percent of the population.
Black crime rates were lower in the 1940s and 1950s, when black poverty was higher and racial discrimination was rampant and legal.
Before the 1960s most black children were raised in two-parent families. In 2013, over 72 percent of blacks were born out of wedlock.