The paper included a decade’s worth of data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention among Black women ages 25 to 44 across 30 states.

The paper included a decade’s worth of data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention among Black women ages 25 to 44 across 30 states.

In the U.S., Black adult women are six times more likely to be killed than their white counterparts, troubling new data reveals.

A paper published Thursday in The Lancet medical journal analyzed homicide rates of Black women ages 25 to 44 across 30 states. The data was collected between 1999 and 2020 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Vital Statistics System.

Homicides were classified in this study as death by shooting, piercing, cutting and other forms of violence. Racial disparities varied among states; in Wisconsin, for example, Black women were 20 times more likely to be killed than white women. Black women living in Midwestern and Northeastern states were also more likely to be killed by a firearm, the paper found.

The study was designed to provide more comprehensive data about homicide rates among Black women and fill in the gaps in the existing literature, said Bernadine Waller, the paper’s lead author and a postdoctoral psychiatry research fellow at the Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center.

  • Jax@sh.itjust.works
    41·
    9 months ago

    I struggle to believe that anything close to the majority of that 21k somehow ends up being innocent.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      63·
      9 months ago

      Again- the question is not how many black people who are found guilty of murder are innocent, it’s how many white people are found not guilty for the exact same crime with the same level or greater evidence against the defendant. Or not even charged in the first place.

      I have never heard of a black person having affluenza. In fact, the only black person I have ever heard of being let off for spurious reasons like ‘affluenza’ is OJ Simpson and only because he was super rich and had like 8 high-paid lawyers vs. 2 deputy district attorneys.