Racial disparities in murder rates show the price of poverty

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African Americans make up only 6 percent of Wisconsin’s population . But the latest national crime study shows if your black in Wisconsin you’re nine times more likely than whites or other ethnic groups to be a murder victim. That’s higher than the national ratio according to the National Crime Victimization Study released this month. Gil Halsted has more…

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