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One of America's most segregated cities, there's unequal violence and unequal justice
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Violent crime in Milwaukee is unequal, victimizing African American residents more often than their white counterparts.

Criminologists and other academics have long focused on individual choices and risk factors, such as illegally carrying a gun or selling drugs, when it came to explaining who gets shot and why — but a growing body of research is showing systemic factors may matter more.
When public health experts wanted to figure out how violent crime is linked with structural racism, they looked at decades-old housing maps. Their results were published last year in the journal Social Science and Medicine.

The maps, created by the federal government in the 1930s, explicitly used race to determine creditworthiness and investment risk within neighborhoods. Areas deemed “unworthy of economic investment by virtue of the races, ethnicities, and religions of their residents” were shaded red, the study said.

The researchers examined Philadelphia and found those redlined areas today are more likely to be the places where violence is most common.


In Milwaukee, the same pattern appears. Present-day census tracts donâ€t match up perfectly with the historic redlined neighborhoods. 
But of the tracts that fall mostly within the old red boundary, 36% of residents†incomes are below the poverty line — 9 percentage points worse than the citywide poverty rate of 27%.

From 2014 to 2018, the homicide rate in these neighborhoods was 13% worse than the number for the city as a whole, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel analysis found. The nonfatal shooting rate was 28% worse than the citywide average.

The researchers in Philadelphia carefully noted their work did not prove the “insidious confluence” of structural racism and concentrated violence.  But, they said, it gave “historical dimension” to earlier studies that found racial disparities are “as much an issue of place as they are of people.”

The maps reinforced and deepened segregation that persists today. That segregation is connected with poverty and crime. And it leads to unequal victimization. Last year, a black resident in Milwaukee was eight times as likely as a white resident to be shot and killed, according to the Journal Sentinel analysis.

Segregation as a risk factor for homicide. A black person living in Wisconsin is 22 times more likely than a white person to be fatally shot. A recent study out of Boston University tried to figure out why the disparities vary so much among states.

Researchers used 25 years of data and controlled for unemployment, incarceration, education levels, poverty, homeownership and single-parent households. They found one variable that seems to explain the statistics... Segregation. 

“In other words, racial segregation is a risk factor for firearm homicide,” said Michael Siegel, a physician and public health researcher at Boston University. For every 10 point increase in the segregation index, the gap between the black-white firearm homicide rate increased by nearly 40%, the study found.

There is much more >>> https://projects.jsonline.com/news/2019/...crime.html
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Interesting yet not surprising.  The environment in those segregated areas breed violence and breaking laws.
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(09-11-2019, 10:21 AM)BoyGenius Wrote: Violent crime in Milwaukee is unequal, victimizing African American residents more often than their white counterparts.

Blacks create these violent sh*t holes of misery and then the primary complaint is they suffer disproportionately.  Milwaukee turned into one due to blacks migrating from Chicago to Wisconsin to latch onto generous welfare handouts.  They are like a plague of locusts devouring everything in their path.  Parasites continually seeking new hosts.
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The interesting aspect is the use of "unequal violence" and "unequal justice". What does that mean?
Is it an admission of... where you have blacks, you have violence and where you have whites, you don't?
Or... does The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel want more white people to become victims of black gun violence?

Remember, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel suggested segregation is too blame for blacks killing/shooting other black people...
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Whites AND middle class blacks deserted those areas and for a reason. They don't want to be victims. It does result in a concentration of crime for sure. But this seems to place the blame on those seeking safety. Do we do some sort of forced desegregation and force more well of blacks and whites to live in economically mixed communities so they can get shot more often evening things out? Or do they actually think that would reduce the violence of that demographic?
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Still, it was difficult for black residents to get loans to buy homes in the area.

Since the federal government had deemed it a risky investment through redlining, banks refused to lend in predominantly black neighborhoods. Meanwhile, white borrowers received loans to buy homes even if they had lower incomes.
“As a result, blacks werenâ€t able to get mortgages to buy homes and build equity and build generational wealth,” Jackson said.

People try and boil all issues down to one or two things.  "Oh, black people are just dumb and lazy and thugs..." but there are so many factors in play, many that we don't even fully understand, that uninformed people like to write off but actually play a huge role.
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(09-11-2019, 11:29 AM)P1tchblack Wrote: Still, it was difficult for black residents to get loans to buy homes in the area.

Since the federal government had deemed it a risky investment through redlining, banks refused to lend in predominantly black neighborhoods. Meanwhile, white borrowers received loans to buy homes even if they had lower incomes.
“As a result, blacks werenâ€t able to get mortgages to buy homes and build equity and build generational wealth,” Jackson said.

People try and boil all issues down to one or two things.  "Oh, black people are just dumb and lazy and thugs..." but there are so many factors in play, many that we don't even fully understand, that uninformed people like to write off but actually play a huge role.

Can't imagine why lenders wouldn't be too eager to loan money to people who have both a history of not paying it back and don't even have the capability to pay it back.
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(09-11-2019, 11:32 AM)Hightop77 Wrote:
(09-11-2019, 11:29 AM)P1tchblack Wrote: Still, it was difficult for black residents to get loans to buy homes in the area.

Since the federal government had deemed it a risky investment through redlining, banks refused to lend in predominantly black neighborhoods. Meanwhile, white borrowers received loans to buy homes even if they had lower incomes.
“As a result, blacks werenâ€t able to get mortgages to buy homes and build equity and build generational wealth,” Jackson said.

People try and boil all issues down to one or two things.  "Oh, black people are just dumb and lazy and thugs..." but there are so many factors in play, many that we don't even fully understand, that uninformed people like to write off but actually play a huge role.

Can't imagine why lenders wouldn't be too eager to loan money to people who have both a history of not paying it back and don't even have the capability to pay it back.

Where in the article did it discuss credit score?
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Renting now causes black people to disproportionately commit violent crimes?
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(09-11-2019, 11:37 AM)P1tchblack Wrote:
(09-11-2019, 11:32 AM)Hightop77 Wrote:
(09-11-2019, 11:29 AM)P1tchblack Wrote: Still, it was difficult for black residents to get loans to buy homes in the area.

Since the federal government had deemed it a risky investment through redlining, banks refused to lend in predominantly black neighborhoods. Meanwhile, white borrowers received loans to buy homes even if they had lower incomes.
“As a result, blacks werenâ€t able to get mortgages to buy homes and build equity and build generational wealth,” Jackson said.

People try and boil all issues down to one or two things.  "Oh, black people are just dumb and lazy and thugs..." but there are so many factors in play, many that we don't even fully understand, that uninformed people like to write off but actually play a huge role.

Can't imagine why lenders wouldn't be too eager to loan money to people who have both a history of not paying it back and don't even have the capability to pay it back.

Where in the article did it discuss credit score?

Do you think lenders won't make loans to qualified responsible people just because of skin color?
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(09-11-2019, 11:40 AM)Hightop77 Wrote:
(09-11-2019, 11:37 AM)P1tchblack Wrote:
(09-11-2019, 11:32 AM)Hightop77 Wrote:
(09-11-2019, 11:29 AM)P1tchblack Wrote: Still, it was difficult for black residents to get loans to buy homes in the area.

Since the federal government had deemed it a risky investment through redlining, banks refused to lend in predominantly black neighborhoods. Meanwhile, white borrowers received loans to buy homes even if they had lower incomes.
“As a result, blacks werenâ€t able to get mortgages to buy homes and build equity and build generational wealth,” Jackson said.

People try and boil all issues down to one or two things.  "Oh, black people are just dumb and lazy and thugs..." but there are so many factors in play, many that we don't even fully understand, that uninformed people like to write off but actually play a huge role.

Can't imagine why lenders wouldn't be too eager to loan money to people who have both a history of not paying it back and don't even have the capability to pay it back.

Where in the article did it discuss credit score?

Do you think lenders won't make loans to qualified responsible people just because of skin color?

That's the implication in the article because, again, there's no mention of credit score/worthiness.
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(09-11-2019, 11:37 AM)BoyGenius Wrote: Renting now causes black people to disproportionately commit violent crimes?

causes them?  obviously not.  There are lots of factors that contribute to any individuals path in life and virtually none of it is genetic.
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