interesting for the wrong reasons

from the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — Indiana had the third-highest rate of black homicides in the nation last year, trailing only Pennsylvania and Louisiana, according to a study released Monday by a nonprofit research group.

Firearms, especially handguns, were used in the overwhelming majority of the nation’s 6,644 slayings with black victims, according to the Violence Policy Center, which supports gun-control efforts. Eighty-five percent of black victims were male.

Pennsylvania recorded 29.52 homicides per 100,000 black residents in 2004, the last year for which the FBI data was available, while Louisiana followed closely behind at 29.48, and Indiana was third with 29.3.

The national rate of black homicides was 18.71 per 100,000.

The national homicide rate overall was 4.86 per 100,000, and the national rate for whites was 2.97 homicides per 100,000, the group reported.

For cases in which the weapon could be identified, 79 percent of the victims were killed with guns, and 80 percent of those deaths involved handguns, the study found.

........... article copied because by the wonders of the press, this article wasn't found on AP, so I couldn't link to it.
What you might have missed is that "black" is lower case, instead of uppercase as it is generally printed. The report isn't from last year, nor the year before, but rather 2004. Lastly, this will undoubtedly be used as a platform for a loudmouth pushy guy ... Jessie Jackson comes to mind to make some statement distantly related to something related to something important.