This report comes from Oakland, Calif. this morning, but it’s a good read for D.C., too.
Oakland family traumatized by violence, death
Oakland Tribune | Mar 30, 2011
According to a recent study from the Violence Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., young black men are 14 times as likely to die violent deaths as their white counterparts. Latino men are 10 times as likely to suffer the same fate. The same study found that Alameda is the second deadliest county in California for young men of color on a per-capita basis.
