The Council on Legal Justice has a report by Thaddeus Johnson titled Violent Victimization is Reducing–However Not for Everybody. The thrust of the report relies on the one-year modifications within the Nationwide Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) between 2022 and 2023.
New federal crime information present that nonlethal violent victimization decreased by 11% in 2023 for Individuals aged 12 and older. However whereas the speed of robberies, aggravated assaults, and rape/sexual assaults fell for White and Hispanic individuals, it moved in the wrong way for Black Individuals.
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Victimization charges for Black Individuals elevated 37% from 2022 and 2023, pushed by a 79% enhance in theft, 47% enhance in rape/sexual assault charges, and a 16% enhance in aggravated assault.
We’ll put to at least one aspect, for now, the variations in measures, which the report notes warrant warning. Even with that warning in thoughts, the reported will increase are alarming. What brought about these numbers to maneuver in reverse instructions?
The report is usually statistics and never a dialogue of attainable causes. What little it does say, although, is a head shaker.
It’s necessary to do not forget that whereas inspecting violent victimization information within the quick time period can make clear essentially the most weak teams, significant options to those disparities name for a deeper dive into long-term information and the broader social and financial situations that drive the variations in victimization throughout racial and ethnic teams.
In fact I’d not dispute that “broader social and financial situations” warrant exploration, however why is there no point out in any respect of justice coverage points? The locations in America with the most important Black populations are additionally the locations most probably to have native governments that jumped on the “defund the police” bandwagon. As well as, they most frequently have elected so-called “progressive” prosecutors which have given the native thugs a inexperienced gentle to go forward and victimize individuals, safe within the information that they won’t get lengthy sentences.
Shouldn’t we glance into that additionally? Apparently not. That’s the proverbial elephant in the lounge. Everybody is aware of it’s there, however it’s thought of a breach of etiquette to say it.