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.

  • SuckMyWang@lemmy.world
    106·
    9 months ago

    Ignoring that cultural reasons may or may not be part of the picture doesn’t help any one solve the problem either

      • AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        9·
        9 months ago

        Distrust of police and lack of faith in the justice system is common among the black population of the USA. However, I don’t know what that other guy had in mind.

        • Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world
          6·
          9 months ago

          For good reason. Or do you believe that if they report their would-be murderers, the police would act before it’s too late?

          • AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            I think it is bullshit to pretend that black people living in America have nothing in common with each other, which is what the person I responded to seemed to believe.

      • SuckMyWang@lemmy.world
        35·
        9 months ago

        It could be linked more to economic opportunity than culture but possibly rates of gangs, the desensitising effects of gang violence and also the reduced rates of married or long term relationships leading to less stable male role models in these communities. There does appear to be a higher rate of idolisation of gang culture in black communities than others.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Given this (from the grandparent of your comment)…

      When you normalize for poverty and population density, the crime rates are basically equal.

      …“cultural reasons” seem unlikely.

      • SuckMyWang@lemmy.world
        11·
        9 months ago

        The idea of crime rates for every crime being even across all cultures is ridiculous if you take second to think about it