It makes sense that I should have [contacted authorities]. We didn’t. I can’t tell you why.”
...who is white...[he] opened fire on four black teenagers in November 2012 because they were listening to what Dunn called loud “thug” music; he continued to fire at the vehicle as it fled the scene. Three of the 10 bullets Dunn fired hit Davis, who was brought to a local hospital and pronounced dead. After the incident, Dunn drove to his hotel room and ordered pizza. He did not call the police. He was arrested at his home the next day.
...it’s a confluence of a number of different things, primary of which is people’s desire to stay alive and free.
Rev. Michael McBride, he
directs the Lifelines to Healing Campaign, a project of the PICO National Network. The campaign is committed to addressing gun violence and mass incarceration of young people of color.
and was responding to
"In 2013 there was a drop in homicides in Oakland, San Francisco, Richmond...in San Jose, [and] in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago—from your perspective what do you think is going on here?"
I’m not concerned that ultra-violent films and video games exist; I’m concerned that, increasingly, that’s almost all there is. For several generations now, the homicidal reflexes that structure these media entertainments have become second-nature, and other narrative paradigms are being phased out. But the larger reality is that these reflexes are present everywhere in our pathology, in our global politics, our sports culture, our criminal justice system, our weapons policy...our ignorant myths of our own national history...
Michael Atkinson, at In These Times
“We think it’s important to shine a light on how some groups, particularly young black men, are disproportionately the victims of homicide...Suppressing that information only serves to tell an incomplete story.”
Megan Garvey, who oversees The Los Angeles Times' 'Homicide Report,' on why The Times uses racial indentifiers in the section.
Because it is a database, it contains information that might not be included in a news article in the printed pages of The Times...That information allows it to keep track of statistics, such as these through Dec. 6 for 2010: the most frequent method of homicide (gunshot), the deadliest day of the week (Sunday) and the race with the most victims (Latino).