Just the facts ma'am... We have a violence problem in the US but the problem is not guns, Regarding the Chicago homicides, by the numbers: Victims and offenders • 76% of victims were African American (77.4% of offenders were), • 18.3% were Hispanic (17.3% of offenders), and • 5.6% were white (5.3% of offenders). Murder victimization rate was: • African American 34 per 100,000; • Hispanic rate was 11 per 100,000, and the • white rate 3 per 100,000.