Blacks are 97x As Likely to Be Murdered in D.C.
Over the last seven years, 1,241 black D.C. residents have died by homicide compared to 11 white D.C. residents.
Here’s my new column in Taki’s Magazine:
Steve Sailer
August 13, 2025
Is crime up or down in Washington, D.C.?
That’s one of those eternal questions that’s back in the news this week as Donald Trump cracks down on crime in the capital city. …
That question seems to baffle a lot of people. But, obviously, it depends upon which crimes you focus upon, how reliable the Official Figures are, and over what time span you measure. …
Since 2018, D.C. blacks have died by homicide 97 times more often per capita than D.C. whites, one of the most bizarre social statistics in modern America.
Read the whole thing there.
As someone who lived in DC for a decent length of time including in a black neighborhood, one of the things I immediately learned is that 95% of whites have zero idea of what goes on day to day in majority black communities, including whites who live in DC but in the nice parts of NW. Every single day you are reminded that their culture is completely different from your own, and it's just automatic, not some conscious reaction against whiteness. I could go on for paragraph after paragraph with examples, but the bottom line is that blacks are quite comfortable with a level of disorder and dysfunction in their environment that is hard for people to believe without having seen it firsthand. Usually the response is "that's not representative of all of them" and it's not, but it is for a large enough share that it inflicts huge amounts of economic and cultural damage that far outstrips everyone else.
This of course has all sorts of terrible downstream effects, obviously with an incredible murder rate being a prominent one. Since the civil rights era, our cultural overlords have successfully inculcated a taboo against open discussion of any of this, and to the extent it can be addressed it's only obliquely, such are references to "youth" or "root causes." This is changing however, and Trump's willingness to essentially usurp black political leadership is moving the Overton window. However it goes, it opens the door to more people questioning the competency of black leaders in addressing persistent problems - and they should, as their record is essentially unblemished by success. From there, we will see an erosion of the primacy of black political demands in our culture, and once those are relegated to their proper place (last) then we can have a better functioning society and perhaps reclaim larger areas of our cities.
Several years ago, Chicago Magazine published a two part series on crime. The articles pointed out that the police department fudged the crime numbers to make them look low. I lived in Chicago and still have family there. One relative knows personally a few cops and they tell him that many crimes and so common that they are not even reported. I am reasonably sure that the same occurs in other big cities dominated by Democrats.