Homicides in Cincinnati increasingly involve a black victim and a black assailant, a trend that has risen through the decade

Since 2005, 86% of homicides in which an arrest was made involved black-on-black violence, up from about 75% of homicide arrests from 2000 through 2004. Eight of 10 homicide victims since 2000 have been black, and all but one of the 66 homicide victims in 2011 was black. An increasing proportion of homicide victims were black in recent years as well, with an analysis showing that they made up 78% of homicide victims from 2000 to 2004, with that proportion rising to 84% between 2005 and the present. The 2010 Census shows that Cincinnati had become a predominantly minority city, with the white population dropping to 48.1%, from 53% in 2000. Although it's getting more attention, the issue of black-on-black crime has been analyzed before. In 1995, it was reported that an African-American in Cincinnati was 10 times more likely to be the victim of another black in a violent crime than of a white.