White victims tend to get close attention while the murder of people of color is often callously left unexplored. A new study, Black Homicide Victimization in the United States: An Analysis of 2016 Homicide Data taps unpublished data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR) to rank states according to the number of black teens and adults murdered there. The data available from 2016 reveals a national crisis. According to the FBI SHR data, in 2016 there were 7,756 black homicide victims in the United States. The homicide rate among black victims in the United States was 20.44 per 100,000. For that year, the overall national homicide rate was 5.10 per 100,000. For white people, the national homicide rate was 2.96 per 100,000. This means that the rate for white people is less than 15% of that for black people.

The homicide rate for black male victims was 37.12 per 100,000. In comparison, the overall rate for male homicide victims was 8.29 per 100,000. For white male homicide victims it was 4.39 per 100,000. That is 12% of the rate for black males.

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