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We’ve all heard the conservative narrative for years now whenever anyone from the Black community brings up the issue of police brutality. On various news programs, social media or society at large the false narrative of Black on Black crime is the main excuse brought up when a police officer seems to kill an unarmed Black person. One of the most annoying augments is when someone usually a guest commentator gets on TV and tries to argue “what about all the Black people killing other Black people in Chicago?”

We all know this is a ridiculous argument, because when Black people commit crimes such as murder they go to prison but when a police officer kills someone unjustly they aren’t charged or never convicted. However, a new study has been released that completely ends this argument.

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According to a evidence brief from the Vera Institute of Justice “An Unjust Burden: The Disparate Treatment of Black Americans in the Criminal Justice System,” crime is the same despite race. The study goes on to say “the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that most violence occurs between victims and offenders of the same race, regardless of race. The rate of both Black-on-Black and white-on-white nonfatal violence declined 79 percent between 1993 and 2015. The number of homicides involving both a Black victim and Black perpetrator fell from 7,361 in 1991 to 2,570 in 2016.”

The study confirms the inherent racism in the American criminal justice system from slavery, Jim Crow and mass incarceration. Nonetheless, this new study proves what many of us already knew that the “Black on Black crime” narrative was just another ploy by media and conservatives to paint the picture that Black people are naturally more criminal than white people.

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