Posted on 11/08/2023 8:09:43 AM PST by grundle
Shootings happen over and over in the same locations. About half take place in just 1% to 5% of the land area in U.S. cities – in other words, in a tiny percentage of the nation’s homes, stores, parks and street corners.
These same neighborhoods tend to suffer from what criminologists call concentrated disadvantage – an unsavory mix of high crime rates, illegal drug markets, poverty, limited educational and economic opportunities, and residential instability. Cumulatively, these factors decrease the residents’ ability to maintain public order and safety in the ways that safer neighborhoods do informally by confronting violent behavior or supervising teenagers.
Kids who grow up in these neighborhoods suffer the long-lasting repercussions of exposure to violence, such as high levels of stress and trauma that dampen educational attainment and result in decreased cognitive ability.
The demographics of these neighborhoods means that both victims and perpetrators of shootings are disproportionately young Black men. Young Black men represented 93.9% of firearm-related homicide victims in Chicago and 79.3% of gun homicides in Philadelphia – where young Hispanic men make up another 12.9%. Homicides disproportionately affect the young largely because men ages 15 to 25 are more likely to engage in delinquent and criminal behavior, a phenomenon known as the age-crime curve.
How bad is it? For some young men, it can be safer to be in the U.S. military at war than living at home in the most violent neighborhoods of Philadelphia and Chicago.
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Would the author prefer they die by knives?
Philly got an anit-Crime, pro stop and frisk mayor last night. We will see if things change.
Black deaths from murder and traffic accidents jumped 40% immediately after the George Floyd/Defund Police Protests, and continue to rise at a rate higher than any other group.
Blacks need MORE police, not less.
All the pathetic, woke, emotive analogies and slogans will not change this simple fact
Does this mean Gun Control doesn’t work?
If black yutes want to participate in their own extinction by acting like, well, black yutes. Why should anyone care? CELEBRATE THEIR CULTURE of killing each other.
They should just make it illegal to get murdered
Ohio is doing their part. They just allowed liberal abortion yesterday. And we all know at whom the abortion business is directed!
Mexico thinks the have drug cartels the ones here kill on a 24 hour schedule.
Because...Democrats.
“They should just make it illegal to get murdered”
No killing zones with signs.
Using the words "violent parts" and "Philadelphia" in the same sentence is redundant.
Or lock up all the criminals?
Appears evident and without doubt that black people are their own worst enemy.
Black Culture! Ain’t it wonderful?
It should read violent young men.
100,000+ ODs/yr but guns are the problem? 🖕
🙏🇺🇸🇮🇱👍
Feral negroes killing each other.
They’re not dying from guns, they’re dying from each other.
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