Causes Of Black Crime In Today's Society

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There are many problems in today’s society. In the black community, it never fails you turn on the news and see the death of one or several. The news is really disappointing; they choose to show all bad and not good. Everyday there's a story about black on black crimes and how adults younger and younger killing each other with guns or any type of weapon. Violence needs to stop in general. There's always a teenage black boy getting shot or beaten to death by someone. Or a female getting raped or shot, it's just chaotic. Now a days the police aren’t any help, sometimes they are the cause of the crime. Brutality eventually seems as if it's going to take over the world. As each day passes the percentage of black on black crimes tends to increases.

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