Math geek that I can be, I downloaded the Philadelphia Shooting Victims database, and then ran the numbers.

The database is awkward, any you need to manipulate it to be able to read it easily. While race, sex and age of the victims are in three columns together, the column indicating whether the victim is Latino is far to the right, and then, even further, is the column indicating whether the victims was killed. I saved it to a Microsoft Excel file, then moved the columns around, and hand-tallied the results.

Black males were 65.49% of the shooting victims, and 77.08% of the fatal shooting victims. Black females were 11.95% of the shooting victims, and 4.17% of the fatal shooting victims. Remember: the population of the city are only 38.3% non-Hispanic black.

The gang-bangers are rather poor shots, killing their victims ‘only’ 21.24% of the time.

The Editorial Board of The Philadelphia Inquirer lamented that non-Hispanic white Philadelphians feel much safer in the city than people of color. I suppose that they should: white males and females together accounted for 6.19% of shooting victims, and only 2.08% of shooting fatalities.

Make of the numbers what you will.