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NYT Report on Murder Rate of Black Teens is Misleading

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Yesterday, the New York Times ran a story about the increase of the homicide rate among black teens.  I've mentioned before how I hate stories like these. I always feel like the media uses them to remind everyone to be very afraid of the big black bogeyman. Now it seems the Times' very on freakonomics blogger is debunking the story, or at least claiming it's devious.     Steve Levitt took a more accurate approach to the homicide report, unlike the… Read More