Thanks for this article. I assume that black homicide is where the perpetrator is black but the victim may be white or black?
Just reading a book called "Why most things fail" by Paul Ormerod who is also an economist. He describes how, despite money being poured into various social programs, the poor and disadvantaged remain poor and disadvantaged and that they remain in tight enclaves (if that's the right word.)
Yes, it was probably on Unherd in an article by Martin Gurri called "Will we escape our age of failure?". It caught my eye and looked interesting, which it is.
It always surprises me how individual people can be smart but as a collective we are stupid. Our civil service is supposed to pick the cream of the crop from the universities and yet as a whole they seem to be incompetent, making appalling blunders.
A good source for homicides is the CDC's WONDER database on mortality.
You can't break out the city of Chicago, but you can look up Cook County. It reports the numbers of victims by race by month back to 1999 and by week since 2018.
Thanks for this article. I assume that black homicide is where the perpetrator is black but the victim may be white or black?
Just reading a book called "Why most things fail" by Paul Ormerod who is also an economist. He describes how, despite money being poured into various social programs, the poor and disadvantaged remain poor and disadvantaged and that they remain in tight enclaves (if that's the right word.)
Ha! I just ordered that book. We must have come across the same reference to it.
Anyway, good question. By "black homicides" I mean black victims.
Yes, it was probably on Unherd in an article by Martin Gurri called "Will we escape our age of failure?". It caught my eye and looked interesting, which it is.
It always surprises me how individual people can be smart but as a collective we are stupid. Our civil service is supposed to pick the cream of the crop from the universities and yet as a whole they seem to be incompetent, making appalling blunders.
"The best and the brightest."
A good source for homicides is the CDC's WONDER database on mortality.
You can't break out the city of Chicago, but you can look up Cook County. It reports the numbers of victims by race by month back to 1999 and by week since 2018.
Excellent.
Many thanks for the tip.
I will dig into it!