If most serial killers had been black, instead of white --What would have happened?

Question

a. Racial profiling

b. Paranoia

c. "Scientific" studies to find out the 'genetic' causes

d. More pubic debate on the issue

e. All of the above

f. None of the above


Justify your answer.

Just answer the question, and quit making excuses and denying what is an established fact: most serial killers are white. There's no escaping it.

Answer 1

E. All those things would happen. Good thing it's not like that, huh?

Answer 2

I would say E, due to the fact that there have been studies for along time to find out what makes these individuals tick. They have tried to study it to see if there is a way to prevent it which is impossible due to alot of situational actions by some. I think that profiling helps law enforcement as well as scientific studies not for prevention but for catching the individual before it becomes an epidemic. With a history of Law Emforcement myself all we were ever given was basically the same information that any one can get including the actual individual which gives that individual the notariety that he or she clings onto. Serial killers are kind of like terrorist, they look for a way to satisfy their need to compose a plan to fill a fantasy that they see as needed for their survival.

Answer 3

E. All of the above.
~A happens already anyway with the police/other people too...so does B (who is a person more likely to clutch their purse,wallet, etc. closer to themselves when walking past: A white man or a black man?) C. Would be a little bit more likely because people already think anger and violence is in our blood. D would happen because it would be used to try and prove more stereotypes about how blacks are the most violent race in America and everybody else knew it but them. All the more reasons to lock black people up they would say. I hate to say that people would feel that way about my race, but it's true. Not ALL people would do this, but some would (especially the ones that do it now). Murder is murder and it shouldn't matter what color the serial killer is but people just seem to get all worked up in the head when it's a black killer.

Answer 4

f. none of the above.
yes almost all serial killers are white. I really can not think of one black serial killer, is there any? I think it has something to do with genetics. There is already racial profiling, paranoia still exists, so those two are nothing new. As far as genetics, I don't know why they don't do a testing sort of thing on the whites who are convicted serial killers.

Answer 5

F. None of the above. Serial killers are highly intelligent and hard to catch, so we only know about the ones who have been nailed.

How about women? Eileen Wuornos. Maybe most women serial killers are more clever at not getting caught. Who knows. After all, isn't this just a hypothetical question?

Answer 6

Does it really matter? A serial killer is a serial killer no matter what color. Does it make him any less of a killer because he was black or white? The answer is no so get over what ever racial thing you have going on in your head and stop trying to justify a serial killers motives based on his color. Based on your question, I think you have a chip on your shoulder about your race and you need to get over it. Murder is murder! It's not any less of a crime just because a white committed it or a black committed it.

Answer 7

it's quite possible more blacks would die since serial killers tend to hunt within their own ethnic group.

as for the choices, they seem to hold true irrespective of race. already most law enforcement professionals claim whites tend to commit serial murder more. that sounds like profiling to me.

paranoia seems inherent. i don't know if the race issue would change that. how many times do we hear stuff like ... sure, he seems okay, but look at ted bundy or jeffery dahmer

scientific studies? many a white serial killer's brain has been donated to universities and hospitals to be picked over like last night's pad thai noodles.

let's just skip the pubic debate.

Answer 8

e.
The bad thing is, is that white people still look at black people with fear in their eyes, when they are around a black person, usually they put more distance between them.
And it is a fact: Statistics shows that the average serial killer and sex offender is a White male inbetween the ages of 32-40.

Answer 9

F. None of the above.

Criminologists who study serial killers have often suggested that the incidence of non-white serial murderers is underreported. This is based on the reality that for African American, Latino/a, and Native American murder victims, the prevalence of unsolved homicides is much higher than for the white population. Most "serial" murders are detected as such only as a culprit is apprehended (the big-name serial killers such as the Green River killer or BTK who are known to be active serial killers long before their identities are discovered are better news, but they are the minority of serial killers) for at least two of the homicides. Scholarship clearly demonstrates that serial killers primarily prey upon people in their own ethnic group. So one way of looking at these data is that there may well be considerably more Black or other non-white serial killers than we are aware, currently at large (or incarcerated for one murder but guilty of others for which they have never been charged--hence undetected as a serial killer). However, since due to unequal valuation of human lives across the racial spectrum (in other words, because social pressure to catch the killer of a White woman, for example, is greater in most places than social pressure to catch the killer of a Black woman--and that is a well-documented fact--consider how much attention white girls who disappear on vacation get from the media compared to how much young Black women who disappear receive), fewer of the non-white serial killers are detected or caught.

So, another way of answering your question is: hypothetically, what if the compulsion to commit serial homicide is fairly evenly distributed across the ethnic spectrum, but we are *catching* or *identifying* more white serial killers than Black, Latino, Asian American, or Native American serial killers?

So, to answer your short question with my very long answer: None of the Above.

Answer 10

Unfortunately, this society already has instilled the "fear of the black man" into society through negative media images and ignorance. If most serial killers were black, I think we'd all be on a ship back to Africa :)

Answer 11

I don't think any "pubic" debate would have occured. I think f, none of the above. There is no reason to believe that race would have anything to do with killing, it is all mental. It isn't genetic, and there is no reason for debate. They have discovered that only truly troubled minds are killers.