# Murder Rates... Black men, Black women

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder-rates-black-men-black-women/758391>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 26, 2016, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder-rates-black-men-black-women/758391 "2016-06-26T08:17:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2016, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder-rates-black-men-black-women/758391/1 "2016-06-26T08:17:39Z")

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I need to know how many black men are killed by black women, and vice versa.

I tried looking it up, but it turns out I’m illiterate or some shit, I don’t know. Because I can’t find stats that explain it plainly for me.

If anyone can help, I’m grateful. If not, I guess I’ll just fuck right off. Thank you!

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**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2016, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder-rates-black-men-black-women/758391/2 "2016-06-26T09:46:59Z")

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Surprisingly hard to find, isnt it?

You can find figures on [how many Blacks are killed by Blacks vs non-Blacks.](https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-2014/tables/expanded-homicide-data/expanded_homicide_data_table_6_murder_race_and_sex_of_vicitm_by_race_and_sex_of_offender_2014.xls) You can find how many Blacks are killed by men vs women. You can find how many men are killed by Blacks vs non-Blacks. But trying to find how many Black women are killed by Black men is difficult. Obviously the information exists, but I can’t find it with a cursory search.

What I did find was that “[Among black marital partners](http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/mf.pdf), wives were just about as likely to kill their husbands as husbands were to kill their wives: 47% of the victims of a spouse were husbands and 53% were wives.”

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**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2016, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder-rates-black-men-black-women/758391/3 "2016-06-26T10:24:16Z")

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Blake, bless you for this! It’s the closest I’ve gotten so far!

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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder-rates-black-men-black-women/758391/4 "2016-06-27T10:22:47Z")

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> **[Crosstabulations of Known Murder Offenders](https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/ezashr/asp/off_selection.asp)**
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> Easy Access to the FBI's Supplementary Homicide Reports (EZASHR) provides access 
> to more than twenty years of data on homicide victims and known homicide offenders, 
> including information on the age, sex, and race of...