The source? Feel free to do a Google search for the FBI's Uniform crime statistics. They're very easy to find and very robustly segmented along demographic lines.
The implication? What implication should there be other than that homicide is much higher in these communities and that by extension it doesn't seem surprising that an abnormally large number of female residents of these communities might be victims of it too.
Oh, I’m very familiar with the statistics you’re referring to and how often they’re ripped without context and injected into arguments like these, often with a barely veiled racist tinge to it. I was just curious if you were brave enough to say what you’re actually trying to say - clearly no.
There’s no causal relationship between black on black homicides (especially in the fbi statistics you are allegedly referencing - those crimes would be solved and not related to missing persons) and missing black women and even taking your argument as generously as I possibly can, suggesting so is very victim blamey and a little gross. For your statement to be true you’d have to also allege that the same statistics you’re referencing (but won’t post) are actually incorrect and the violence rate is much higher within the black community than the “authoritative” source you won’t post, which kind of invalidates your entire point, if you even had a real one.
Please go ahead and explain what's racist about referring to very unambiguous homicide and violent crime numbers that show how high the level of black on black murder is in that community. We can debate its causes and underlying systemic issues broadly, but the actual murder rates are what they are compared to other demographics.
>There’s no causal relationship between black on black homicides (especially in the fbi statistics you are allegedly referencing - those crimes would be solved and not related to missing persons) and missing black women
I'd argue that there very much is. Generally, if a certain community has a high murder rate and the women of that community, who live within and also work within that community are disappearing at disproportionate rates, it's hard to reason for outside causes unless you have evidence pointing to them. Also, among solved disappearances caused by homicides or violence against black women, the perpetrators are also more often from within their own demographic. Are you really going to say that it's then insane to extrapolate similar tendencies for many of the still unsolved cases despite a majority of solved cases consistently showing the same demographic tendency for the perpetrators?
>suggesting so is very victim blamey and a little gross.
I'm not at all blaming victims and can't see how you'd come to that conclusion. Pointing out likelihoods for cause of disappearance isn't blaming the woman for having been the victim of that disappearance, and a reasoned argument shouldn't be subjected to schoolyard criticisms like "gross".
>For your statement to be true you’d have to also allege that the same statistics you’re referencing (but won’t post) are actually incorrect and the violence rate is much higher within the black community than the “authoritative” source you won’t post, which kind of invalidates your entire point, if you even had a real one.
This I literally just didn't understand. How would my statement being true invalidate the statistics i'm referring to, or my point? The FBI's stats about resolved cases can be true while at the same time, for the reasons I mentioned above, the unsolved cases can have a high likelihood towards a certain outcome.
Also, I didn't link the stats because it's not hard to find them, not for some obscure point of obfuscation. They're really easy to look up, right through 2 seconds of google and then directly to the FBI's own web pages.
