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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Exactly, common sense, tough on crime laws with stiff penalties. Getting murdered should be a capital crime.
“dampen educational attainment”
Maybe spending the afternoons and evenings studying instead of hanging out on the streets would promote educational attainment and lessen the risk of harm and “stress.”
The natural consequence of a subculture that harbors criminals and rejects the rule of law.
These are meaningless comparisons. I remember the crap that went around during the Vietnam war. We were safer in vietnam than back at “home”. What was used for comparison was deaths from DUI compared to combat deaths. You were far more likely to die in an alcohol related car wreck than patrolling in the Mekong Delta.
Not sure it was a real apples to apples comparison, though.
That's been the nature of big cities since forever.
But I'm always shocked that people are SO trapped that they won't leave such horribly toxic environments and move to somewhere that is safe and has opportunity. It's the mothers who raise their sons in those horrid places -- obviously there are no fathers in the kids' lives.
I cannot imagine being so helpless that I would stay there. Dad raised us to be adventurous and strike out for opportunity. We did the same for our kids. All of them have packed up and moved to better opportunities.
This has always been the case - the major victims (black and “minority” young men) are not only disproportionately the shooters in gun crimes in many major cities, they are equally the above average victims of those crimes.
When the enemy is destroying itself ....
The opening two paragraphs described damn near all of Chicago since legal weed and no cash bail policies were out in place.
NOT kidding.
What is the US even doing in Philadelphia?
Get the US out of Philadelphia!!
Entirely in local voters control. Stop whining, no one will help you but yourselves....or move.
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