Half of Those Under 40 Have Witnessed a Shooting in Chicago at an Average Age of 14 Years Old

It is sick out there and getting sicker. Chicagoans are living in a war zone. Over half the population has witnessed a shooting by age 40. The average age of the witnesses is 14. The average age for being shot is 17.

Of those young people who were surveyed, 7% of blacks, 7% of Hispanics, and 3% of whites were themselves shot. This indicates that while so-called “black-on-black” crime may be at a higher level, a pathological percentage of young people are being subjected to the hail of bullets that has become a way of life in the Windy City.

The data is drawn from a long-term study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Open Source. The team was led by a criminologist from Cambridge University along with researchers from Harvard and Oxford. The study began 25 years ago, and the sample size is about 2,000 young people.

The racial and sexual breakdown of violence in this once great “Second City” of the United States matches familiar patterns in law enforcement. Women are less likely than men to have seen the violence, with 43% of women and 58% of men having witnessed shootings. If you break the numbers down by race, 56% of lacks and Hispanics and 25% of whites are likely to have witnessed at least one gunshot incident.

“We expected levels of exposure to gun violence to be high, but not this high. Our findings are frankly startling and disturbing,” said Dr. Charles Lanfear of the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Criminology. “A substantial portion of Chicago’s population could be living with trauma as a result of witnessing shootings and homicides, often at a very young age.”

I wonder what results you would get if you were to conduct the same survey in Montana or the Dakotas or Vermont or Maine or New Hampshire?

2 posted on 05/10/2023 7:53:21 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )

Half of those in Chicago have witnessed a shooting...

And 85% of people in Chicago have voted for Democrats all their lives, however short they may be.

I’ve always thought the movie Death Wish with Bruce Willis was a pretty accurate depiction of how Chicago really is.

Thugs preying on the innocent is the order of the day.

SO WHAT! Let them kill themselves, Exploit it, Put it on YouTube, online betting. Make it a weekly family event of watching minority yutes practicing self extinction...

It’s not only Chicago. I was a PepsiCo delivery guy in the ghettos of Cincinnati for 15 years, actually in the jungle 30 hours a week. I witnessed two fatal shootings. I saw or heard many other exchanges taking place.

I’m not interested in their statistics if their only solution is “gun control”.

Whenever the black community decides to turn back to The True God of the Bible and get their house in order, then I’ll care.

11 posted on 05/10/2023 8:15:06 AM PDT by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, LGBTQs, RINOs, Islamonazis, Marxists, Commucrats: It's a Godlessness disorder!)

Meanwhile, the bulldagger lame duck (sp?) mayor continues to try to blame immigrants sent from Texas.

I wonder what results you would get if you were to conduct the same survey in Montana or the Dakotas....

Probably higher....

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