New Study Contradicts FBI Info on Young Black Homicides

The Associated Press reports: "The number of young black men and teenagers who either killed or were killed in shootings has risen at an alarming rate since 2000, a new study...by criminologists at Northeastern University in Boston, comes as FBI data is showing that murders have leveled off nationwide.Not so for black teens, the youngest of whom saw dramatic increases in shooting deaths, the Northeastern report concluded...The study partly blamed Bush administration grant cuts to local police and juvenile crime prevention programs for the surge in crimes by young black men and teens...The number of young white men who committed gun-related homicides also rose over the same period, the Northeastern study showed, but not as dramatically."