Commentary: While gun violence is a big problem for everyone in America, it’s not an equally big problem for everyone — and there are signs that safety inequality is growing over time.
A Chicago police evidence technician processes a crime scene on Jan. 6, 2023, at a gas station at 601 S. Independence Blvd. in Chicago, where a teen reportedly was shot and killed.
Over the last few years, Chicagoans across the city have been increasingly concerned about safety. The city is now on the verge of One thing people often like to say is that at least gun violence today isn’t as extreme as it was in the bad old days of the early 1990s, at the peak of the crack cocaine epidemic that swept across U.S. cities. That’s true if you live in a predominantly white or Latino neighborhood in Chicago. But that’s no longer true if you, where rates of gun violence are now even higher than in the early 1990s.
Figure 2: Trends in homicide rates per capita for Chicago community areas, based on 1990 racial composition.
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