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Blog Who gets shot in Chicago
Sooooo...Chicago had an estimated population of 2,718,782....in 2013.....and from this study....
About 70 percent of the killings occurred in what Papachristos found was a social network of only about 1,600 people — out of a population of about 80,000 in those neighborhoods.
So 1600 people out of 2,718,782 commit 70% of all gun crime........in one small area of this city.....let alone who knows about the other gang infested tiny areas......
And the irrational, anti gunners think that guns are the problem.......who are the real nuts....?
A, a BLOG on the American Thinker.
Okay, it wasn't like I had any expectation you'd produce a real, peer-reviewed study of the issue.
Again....from the link at the American Thinker to the CHICAGO SUN TIMES article on the Yale university study.....dipstick....
New study shows likelihood of being shot in Chicago Chicago
Papachristos — an associate professor of sociology at Yale and a former Chicagoan with an expertise in gangs — said his study found that exposure to gunshot victims also increases one’s odds of becoming a shooting victim.
And as was previously known, race was a key risk factor in getting shot, the study noted. For every 100,000 people, an average of one white person, 28 Hispanics and 113 blacks became victims of nonfatal shootings every year in Chicago over the six-year study period.
But Papachristos and his team sought to go beyond a racial explanation for nonfatal shootings. They were trying to explain why a specific young African-American male in a high-crime neighborhood becomes a shooting victim, while another young black man in the same neighborhood doesn’t, the study said.
Such social network analysis allows the manpower-strapped Chicago Police Department to “discern who’s at risk rather than casting the net really wide,” he said.
The latest Yale University study was built on Papachristos’ previous social-network research into murders on the West Side. He had studied killings between 2005 and 2010 in West Garfield Park and North Lawndale. About 70 percent of the killings occurred in what Papachristos found was a social network of only about 1,600 people — out of a population of about 80,000 in those neighborhoods. Inside that social network, the risk of being killed was 30 out of 1,000. For the others in those neighborhoods, the risk of getting murdered was less than one in 1,000.
Papachristos said his team has been doing similar social network research in Boston; Cincinnati; Newark; New Haven, Conn.; East Palo Alto, Calif.; Stockton, Calif.; and other cities.
“You are also seeing a clustering of victims in small networks there,” he said. “We’re seeing a pattern.”
If you want to stop gun murders...as oppose to all the other murders.......which you guys don't seem to mind so much....then deal with inner city gangs......not "Joe and Jane" from the suburbs......
Sooooo....out of a population in Chicago of 2,718, 782 you have 1,600 people committing 70% of all the murders............stop them.....not me and other law abiding gun owners.......
Sounds like if you are white and not involved in criminal activity you are really safe.