Racial Disparity Among Murder Victims:  Every year since the early 1990s, nearly half of all U.S. homicide victims have been black men.  Considering that black men represent only about 7% of the U.S. population, their disproportionately high victimization rate represents a staggering and often-ignored figure.  Eric Siddall, Vice President of the Association of Los Angeles Deputy District Attorneys, has this piece discussing how much the decline in homicides between 1991 and 2014 improved the life expectancy of African-American males, while conceding that, even with reduced murders the disproportion among victims remains.  Siddell cites the 23% increase in homicides between 2013 and 2017 reported by the FBI, at a time when the country is dramatically changing or experimenting with our criminal laws.  He sees this as evidence that the drop in murders may be coming to an end, erasing two decades of progress, at an increased cost in the lives of black men.