According to a new study, the worst neighborhoods in Chicago are more dangerous for citizens than the war zones in Iraq or Afghanistan were for American troops.
Chicago has already earned the reputation as “Chiraq” as people have claimed that it is more dangerous to live in the Windy City than live through wars. Now, a study reported on by the Chicago Sun-Times puts the truth to that rueful nickname.
Per the paper
The risk of a man 18 to 29 years old dying in a shooting in the most violent ZIP code in Chicago — 60624, a swath of the West Side that includes Garfield Park — was higher than the death rate for U.S. soldiers in the Afghanistan war or for soldiers in an Army combat brigade that fought in Iraq, according to a study published in the medical journal JAMA Network Open.
“You fight in an Army combat brigade, you come back and say, ‘My God, I was in the thick of it for a year, and look at the risks I faced,’ ” says Brandon del Pozo, a Brown University researcher and former New York City cop who worked with three other scholars to examine violence in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles. “In Garfield Park, these young men face those risks every single year. And the risks accumulate.”
Sure, you might think, the worst of the worst is bad news. But, the researchers even adjusted for that claim.
Even when the researchers expanded their sample to include Chicago ZIP codes ranked in the top 10% of violence, young men still faced a greater risk of dying than soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, the study found.
Chicago wasn’t alone, though.
The study also looked at Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles. The most violent ZIP codes in Philadelphia surpassed the risk of combat death by military service members, too, but the death rate there was lower than in Chicago, the study found. New York and Los Angeles didn’t have any areas that were so deadly.
Now, what is the one common thread linking all these dangerous cities?
Yep. They are all infested by Democrats.
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