A brief Associated Press story in The Philadelphia Inquirer caused me to check the Indianapolis Star:

IMPD: Man dead after shooting on Hovey Street in Indianapolis

Brittany Carloni, Indianapolis Star | Hallowe’en, October 31, 2021 | 7:44 AM | 11:05 AM EDT

A man died early Sunday morning after a shooting northeast of downtown Indianapolis, according to police.

The homicide Sunday marks the 213th criminal homicide in Indianapolis this year and 232 overall homicides, according to numbers provided by Indianapolis Police.

The man’s death was originally believed to be the 215th criminal homicide in Indianapolis this year, which would have tied the city’s record in 2020, according to an IndyStar analysis.

Indianapolis Police subsequently sent out a news release Sunday morning that said two previously reported homicides at the 2800 block of Shadeland Avenue on Oct 5 were reclassified.

IMPD has reclassified five criminal homicides in the last week.

There’s more at the original.

The address of the homicide, 3227 Hovey Street,^[1]Unlike many newspapers which give only the block number, the Star printed the exact address. isn’t some jammed together rowhome like the City of Brotherly Love, but what appears to be a single family starter home in a neighborhood of the same type. Zillow tells me that it’s a 2 bedroom, 836 ft² house worth $66,500.

Naturally, I did the math. 213 criminal homicides in 304 days works out to a projected 256 homicides for the year. The 2020 census put the city’s population at 887,642, which would make the projected homicide rate at 28.80 per 100,000. 2020 set the city’s record at 215, for the entire year, which worked out to a homicide rate of ‘just’ 24.22 per 100,000.

As of October 29, 674 people had been murdered in Chicago. With a population of 2,746,388, and 815 ‘projected’ homicides for 2021, the Windy City’s murder rate works out to 29.68 per 100,000, so Indianapolis is still behind. Philadelphia, naturally, says, “Hold my beer!” and checks in at 34.36 per 100,000, while St Louis, at an astounding 64.10, just laughs and calls them all pikers.

It will surprise exactly no one that, in 2020, homicide victims in Indianapolis were mostly black males. The chart at the left, from Fox 59 News, does not separate out the thirty homicides which were listed as not criminal, but shows that 65.31% were black males, and another 9.80% were black females. That’s 75.11% of all homicides in the city were of black victims . . . among a population that is only 28.55% black.

I get it: to some on the left, math is raaaaacist, so using math to point out a huge racial disparity will be denounced as racist as well.  But, in the end, facts are facts, and it’s time that someone asks why black lives don’t matter to other black people.