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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did 400 children get murdered in the 90's?

I don't think that number is even close to correct. [/quote]

From 1989 to 1996 no fewer than 400 people were murdered per year in DC.
One year it was even 500+.

https://ocme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/ocme/publication/attachments/APPENDIX%20A%20-%2030%20year.pdf

These were mostly Black men and teenagers. Would the feds have been called in if this many white men and children had been murdered every year, specifically UMC and rich white men and teenagers west of the park.

I think we all know the answer.[/quote]

There you go again with (deliberately?) confusing and misleading statistics.

The majority of people murdered in DC has ALWAYS been adult black men.  It was that way in the 90s, and it's that way today.  And it wasn't "mostly" teenagers back then or now and it's never, ever been a lot of children.

Let's take the worst year for murders involving victims under 20:  1993.  In that year, there were 120.  113 of them were 15-19 years old.  Only 7 were under 15.  The total number of victims was 494, meaning that the large majority of victims were adults over 20.

So, again, the fact is that murder in DC is now much lower only in term of gross numbers but not in kind.  The demographics of the victims hasn't changed.  [/quote]

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