Blacks killed by?

A lot of ignorant people think that Blacks are killing Blacks. While 90% of Chicago African Americans are killed by other African Americans, in predominently poor minority neighborhoods patroled by a police department (run by a Black police chief and Mayor) the real culprit is systematic racism.

If you're racist and reading this...please stop...so the killing can stop.

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Chicago wards with most killings by police

By Monica Eng, Delano Massey and Russell Contreras, Axios News

Campaign Zero's "Mapping Police Violence" analysis of Chicago. Photo: Courtesy of Campaign Zero

Black residents of Chicago are 31 times more likely to be killed in police-involved shootings than white residents are, a new Axios analysis shows.

Driving the news: The analysis of neighborhood-level data from civil rights nonprofit Campaign Zero suggests aggressive policing in areas with significantly higher percentages of Black, Latino and Native American residents is leading to more killings by police.

For example, the data shows that from 2013 to July 23, 2024, Black Americans were 2.9 times more likely to be killed by law enforcement in the U.S. than the general population.

What they did: Campaign Zero's "Mapping Police Violence" database examines any incident where a law enforcement officer, whether off-duty or on-duty, uses lethal force, resulting in someone's death, regardless of whether the death is ruled "justified" or "unjustified."

Zoom in: The data indicates that specific Black neighborhoods in Chicago and St. Louis face massively high proportions of these killings.

In Chicago, the city's greatest number of police shootings occurred on the South and West Sides, with heavy concentrations in Lawndale and Garfield Park.

Outside Chicago, the county's most frequent occurrences happened in south suburban Calumet City and Dolton.

Between the lines: The Chicago Police Department, which remains under a federal consent decree to improve its use of force and accountability, has been roiled by multiple high-profile police shootings, including those that killed Laquan McDonald and Dexter Reed.

The issue re-emerged last month after the police killing of Sonya Massey in Springfield.

By the numbers: The database found that law enforcement killed an average of 1,147 people per year during that 10-year period, with Black Americans accounting for 28% of those deaths nationally.