NYT Avoids 'Black Homicide Rate'

Sailer claims the exact phrase 'black homicide rate' has appeared only three times in the New York Times’ 174-year archive. That suggests an editorial avoidance of explicit terminology that would foreground racial disparities in homicide. The result is readers missing a key baseline for judging crime stories and policy. — If leading outlets systematically avoid precise terms, public debate about crime and justice is filtered away from core magnitudes that matter for policy.