Statistics show that fewer black women are killing their black male spouses or boyfriends.
But more white men are killing their white women partners. The news has left experts puzzled. Overall, the number of people killed by their intimate partners declined to 1,830 in 1998 from about 3,000 in 1976, the Justice Department study said. Over the last two decades, the number of killings of black men by their black women partners fell 74 percent. The number of black women killed by their partners dropped 45 percent in the last two decades, while the number of white men killed declined 44 percent.