Report: Nearly All Shooting Victims and Shooters are Black, Hispanic

A new NYPD report is out for the first six months of 2012 and it's not looking pretty for the black and Hispanic community.

The report, "Crime Enforcement Activity in New York City," shows that minority-group members represent 89 percent of murder victims - and 86 percent of murder suspects.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday that 96 percent of shooting victims are black or Hispanic and in 97 percent of all shootings, the trigger was pulled by other blacks and Hispanics.

The report finds that murder and non-negligent manslaughter victims are most frequently black (64.1 percent) or Hispanic (25 percent). Black arrestees (55.3 percent) and Hispanic arrestees (29.4 percent) account for the majority of murder and non-negligent manslaughter arrestees.

Rape victims are most frequently black (40.5 percent) or Hispanic (37.7 percent) and suspects are most frequently black (53.5 percent) or Hispanic (32.3 percent). Rape arrestees are most frequently black (48.7 percent) and Hispanic (43 percent).

Robbery victims are most frequently Hispanic (35.6 percent) or black (32.5 percent).

In 2011, of the 8.1 million people living in NYC, 51.6 percent are black or of Hispanic origin.

According to the report, the 42.4 percent of the New York City Police Department's uniformed officers are black and Hispanic.

On Friday morning, police mistakenly shot and killed 20-year-old Reynaldo Cuevas while responding to an armed robbery inside a Bronx bodega.

"There is clearly a collision and the gun goes off," Kelly said."We believe, initially, it appeared to be an accidental discharge."

The officer, who has not yet been interviewed by the NYPD, is a seven-year veteran of the force. He had never discharged his weapon before, Kelly said.

Fernando Mateo, spokesman for the Bodega Association of the United States, said Cuevas was the father of a 3-year-old child.

"He ran for his life and it's unfortunate that this happened," Mateo said. "We are going to make sure that every bodega owner knows this could have happened to them."