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In 2022 nearly 30 percent of all crime victims were Black women, even though they make up just 16 percent of the city's entire population. Black women in Chicago also represented 24 percent of property theft victims, 38 percent of battery victims, and 40 percent of rape victims.
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I would wish that the reporter provided the other 50% of the incident data. What was the distribution of race for the perpetrators of the crimes against black women?
Amen! And you know the answer. Why not an article entitled Chicago aldermen discuss disproportionate violence by black men.
The reasons for this problem are varied but the solutions do not include defunding and neutering the police, removing shotspotter, refusing to prosecute and jail criminals.