and it does not stress that the perpetrators of violent crime are black.

The phrase "violent murder flourishes in the inner city" and the word homicide can apply to victims or perpetrators. Again, this article places strong emphasis on victims, and very little on perpetrators. It routinely says "black men die", and rarely makes such concrete statements to the effect that "black men kill", which by far, is the greater issue.

victims:

Waters' murder did not make the news in Los Angeles that week. Neither did that of 21-year-old Kevin Dinwitty, 19-year-old Raffik McClinton, 21-year-old Billy Grant Jr., nor of Marlon Luchien, 36, all killed the same week.

victims:

The toll was typical for Los Angeles County, and I had only learned about the deaths of five black men in seven days because I cover homicide for the Los Angeles Times and I read all the coroner's reports once a week.

victims:

More black men died from homicide in 2004 alone than all the children aged 10 and under in the previous five years.

victims:

Even domestic violence, which accounts for a fraction of homicides nationally, appears to have resulted in higher death rates for black men than for white women in recent years.

victims:

Nowadays, even after years of mostly falling or flat crime rates, black men still die from homicide at extraordinary rates.

victims:

Black death rates from homicide in 2002 were almost six times that of whites.

victims:

Black men 15 to 24 years old are most vulnerable -- some 85 per 100,000 died in 2004 from homicide, compared to a national average of six per 100,000.

victims:

The disproportion between white and black death rates reaches back deep into American history.

victims:

The agency's count shows that homicide death rates for black men then were 28 percent higher than in 2003 and 12 times the white male rate.

victims:

The reality is that blacks in 1976 were almost twice as likely to die from homicide as blacks in 2004, and the disparity between black and white rates was 20 percent higher than today.

victims:

This is not news to most older black men I've interviewed in L.A. who describe living in acute fear as far back as the 1960s, long before anyone had heard of Crips or Bloods.

victims:

I've walked blocks where half the black families are grieving a homicide victim.

victims:

Medical examiners in Los Angeles County commonly record the scars of previous gunshot wounds when they autopsy black male homicide victims.

victims:

Although the gap between black homicide death rates and those of every other group in America remains unacceptably large, things have changed.

is that?

Poco