Your 2012 Demographics of the Day post

[CountDeMoney]

Each year, the Baltimore Police homicide section compiles statistics on city killings. Here's how some of the data break down:

Murders: 217
Clearance rate (cases closed by arrest or administratively): 47.4 percent
Victims injured in prior years who died this year:  7
Cases from prior years closed this year (which counts toward this year's clearance rate, per FBI guidelines):  28

Cause:
Arson: 1
Blunt force: 7 (3.6%)
Handgun: 181 (83.4%)
Knife/sharp object: 20 (9.2%)
Shotgun/rifle: 2
Strangle/suffocation: 2
Vehicle: 1
Other: 3

Gender:
Male:  196 (90.3%)
Female:  21 (9.7%)

Race:
Asian: 1
Black:  204 (94.4%)
Hispanic:  1
White: 10 (4.6%)

Age groups:
Juvenile: 11 (5%)
Adult:  206 (95%)
35 and over:  72 (33.2%)
25-34:  68 (31.3%)
24 and under: 77 (35.5%)

Motives:
Argument:  14
Arson:  1
Child abuse:  6
Dispute over money: 2
Domestic:  3
Drugs:  3
Neighborhood (dispute?): 1
Retaliation:  3
Robbery:  10
Other:  10
Unknown:  163

(Known) suspects with criminal records:  79.1 percent
Suspects with drug arrests:  61.6 percent
Suspects on parole and probation at time of killing:  23.3 percent
Suspects arrested for prior gun crimes:  45.3 percent


Victims with criminal records:  82.3 percent
Victims with drug arrests:  68.4 percent
Victims on parole and probation at time of death:  24.2 percentVictims arrested for prior gun crimes:  37.7 percent

[The Brain]

Someone sure hates African-Americans.

[sbr]

The breakdown of ages doesn't seem very helpful.  Is there a reason they use those age ranges?

[CountDeMoney]

The breakdown of ages doesn't seem very helpful.  Is there a reason they use those age ranges?

I dunno, I thought they were awkward as well.

[Josquius]

looks like a pretty big fat 'loosen drug laws' message

[HVC]

What falls under other? Poison?

[Jaron]

Are those your personal stats for the year?

[The Brain]

looks like a pretty big fat 'loosen drug laws' message

3 drug-related ones.

[Scipio]

That is a shitty clearance rate.  WTF, Ballmer?

[PDH]

The breakdown of ages doesn't seem very helpful.  Is there a reason they use those age ranges?

Looks like they chose them to make each roughly a third of the total...

[Viking]

The breakdown of ages doesn't seem very helpful.  Is there a reason they use those age ranges?

It is relevant, it seems that in baltimore most black men are dead by age 35.

[Josquius]

looks like a pretty big fat 'loosen drug laws' message

3 drug-related ones.

lots of unknowns and 61per cent with drug related arrests

[Eddie Teach]

So the monkey threads get locked but this one's allowed to go free? 

[Monoriu]

About the gender, age, race breakdowns - are we talking about the victims or suspects?  My guess is the latter but it doesn't seem 100% clear to me. 

[CountDeMoney]

So the monkey threads get locked but this one's allowed to go free? 

I don't see your point, other than the one at the top of your Klan hood.