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bighairymike:
Despite the recent tragic examples, the 50 millions or so or responsible law abiding gun owners are not the problem, and also not a problem. There are more people killed by criminals in a long weekend in Chicago...Goofyhoofy:
That's probably true. Well, sure... if you cherry-pick the long weekend.
Brookings looked at misconceptions with respect to gun violence and found that murders rose across America irrespective of the size of the city:
For instance, the national murder rate increased by nearly 30% between 2019 and 2020, driven predominantly by gun murders. Cities and towns of all sizes saw their murder rates increase as well, rising over 35% in cities with populations over 250,000; 40% percent in cities with populations of 100,000 to 250,000; and around 25% in cities with populations under 25,000.In Chicago, gun homicides are mostly confined to a handful of neighborhoods: Humboldt Park, Austin, West and East Garfield Park, and North Lawndale, and on the South and Southwest Sides.
So, do those neighborhoods have anything in common?
Well, in fact they do: they are all areas of the city with histories of segregation and disinvestment as well as significant contemporary socioeconomic inequities.
Brookings found that there was a clear disparity between the
perception of crime and the
reality of crime by people and offered several ways to promote safety tailored for higher-crime neighborhoods, such as alternative crisis response models for mental and behavioral health emergencies, investment in the built environment, improvement in transit safety, and others detailed here:
https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-geography-o... 