African-Americans Are Disproportionately the Victims of Murder

Out of the 90 people killed in 2010, 70 (78%) were African-Americans, while African-Americans composed only 28% percent of the city's population[1].  An African-American male between the ages of 18 and 39 was over 10 times more likely to be killed by shooting than any other resident of Oakland.

Age of Victims

In 2010, 30% of people killed were young adults between the ages of 18 and 25. One in ten victims was under the age of 18.

Geographic Distribution

As always, no issue that exists in our community is evenly distributed across the city and with homicide this is very much the case. The map below illustrates how certain neighborhoods are more immune to this particular crime while others are home to high levels of such violence. In 2010 there were three community policing beats with between seven and nine homicides each while 25 beats saw no reported homicides at all.

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[1] This number represents those people counted in Census 2010 and who reported as single race-Black.