Frank Main – Chicago Sun Times Feb 3, 2023
For more than a decade, some people have used the term “Chiraq” — a mashup of Chicago and Iraq — to describe a city whose violence makes some neighborhoods feel like battle zones.
Now, researchers say they’ve found that some parts of Chicago are even deadlier for military-aged young men than what U.S. soldiers faced in war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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.”
Chicago's firearm violence led residents to call it "Chiraq." But do the risks of gun violence in US cities really compare to the risks of war? In a new @JAMANetworkOpen study, our team did the math. The answer: In some US cities, the risks are much worse.https://t.co/iXm6YyeSXL
— Brandon del Pozo, PhD, MPA, MA (@BrandondelPozo) December 22, 2022
ZIP code 60624 is bordered by Cicero Avenue on the west, Chicago Avenue on the north, Homan Avenue on the east and Roosevelt Road on the south. Garfield Park is in the middle.
Among men ages 18 to 29, the annual rate of firearm homicides in that ZIP code was 1,277 per 100,000 people in 2021 and 2022, the study found, compared with an annual death rate for U.S. troops in a heavily engaged combat brigade in Iraq of 675 per 100,000.
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.
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.
And, del Pozo says, “Across all the cities we studied, we found young Black and Hispanic men overwhelmingly bore these warlike risks of firearm death and injury. They were 96% of the victims.”
“Philadelphia and Chicago suffer from two things: more concentrated segregation and more concentrated violence,” del Pozo says.
Violent crime is the biggest issue in this month’s mayoral election. Annual murder numbers were near all-time highs in 2020 and 2021.
Some candidates are running on tough-on-crime campaigns. Businessman Willie Wilson, whose son was killed, controversially says cops should chase down criminals like “rabbits.”
Mayor Lori Lightfoot (right) says the city is making progress on reducing crime, with investments in the city’s most dangerous neighborhoods contributing to last year’s 14% decrease in fatal shootings.
Still, del Pozo says, “If you are talking about the historical predicament of young men in Garfield Park, it has never been worse.”
He notes that in some Chicago areas — such as ZIP code 60624 — per capita gun violence rates remain higher than during some of the city’s most dangerous periods in the early 1970s and early 1990s.
“ ‘Chiraq’ is a cultural trope,” del Pozo says. “We wanted to see if there was any empirical basis to the trope — and unfortunately there is.”
The findings of the study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, “suggest that urban health strategies should prioritize violence reduction and take a trauma-informed approach,” the researchers wrote.
“We fully expect veterans returning from a year at war to suffer from PTSD and to be more vulnerable to alcoholism, divorce, substance use, homelessness, mental illness,” del Pozo says. “If that’s the case, I can only imagine what it says about young men who experienced even greater levels of risk of violent death year after year after year in Chicago. That is a health crisis.”
Across all the cities we studied, we found young Black and Hispanic men overwhelmingly bore these warlike risks of firearm death and injury. They were 96% of the victims. In the worst area of Chicago, they faced an annual shooting risk of nearly 6%. https://t.co/esMtenVCSW
— Brandon del Pozo, PhD, MPA, MA (@BrandondelPozo) December 22, 2022
In the 1920s Chicago was undergoing a cultural renaissance and poetry and music spewed forth and created the ground for the amazing ideas that influenced everything from poetry to Hollywood movies.
A century later the truly extraordinary change entered the world. Trust me, what Chicago did in the 1920s laid the cornerstone for the creative flood of the 20th century.
As well, what Chicago is doing NOW will creep its way into all the Eurozone in due time. The wise men in 1920 knew that races — however brilliant and decent in their own way — cannot be effectively mixed. What follows is war and it will be a bloody and terrifying war to the end.
For this we thank the controllers of the world, the ones a frequent visitor to Chicago, Henry Ford, warned us about.
The question now is it too late for all the European lands? It’s certainly goners for Chicago, but how about the rest of us? The question is pertinent. The answer does not lie in each of us, for without the leadership that Europe once took for granted it is not in our hands.
Let us hope for strength in the coming days. They are coming fast.
What do you expect from Rock Apes,
This is an indicator of societal collapse and the lawlessness naturally happens in the poorest districts first. When the dollar dies the US will pass beyond the third world into Mad Max. A walled enclave will be just another high-value target. The rich will flee and the safest places will be distant islands or aboard yachts.
“And, del Pozo says, “Across all the cities we studied, we found young Black and Hispanic men overwhelmingly bore these warlike risks of firearm death and injury. They were 96% of the victims.””
Oh, it is to weep! Pray for Chicago, may the Lord have mercy upon the souls of these cherished angels who leave this vale of tears, who shuffle off this mortal coil, who depart all too soon, without even the chance to say goodbye.
Enough with the sarcasm, you will notice (((Brandon del Pozo))) PhD, MPA, MA (Jews are the biggest affirmative action queens on the planet) is Jewish (mother) and Cuban. The astute will have him *pegged* the moment they set eyes upon him. Therefore and true to form, he makes no mention of the race of the murderers and it’s to be expected that he hates whites and wishes Africans, Hispanics were murdering us instead. Decades ago, when I still watched some Talmud Vision occasionally, there was a news segment with a Canadian Broadcasting Company bleach blonde red lipsticked plastic piece of **** news reader lamenting: “what was so tragic is that it was blacks killing blacks”. I remember thinking, would you prefer it was blacks killing whites instead? Of course she would. They all would.
“Violence in some Chicago neighborhoods puts young men at greater risk than U.S. troops faced in Iraq, Afghanistan war zones, study finds.”
Great! Let’s send the Dindunoffins bunch and their creepy “Beetleguise” leader over to the conflict in Ukraine if they think they’re so tough.
Rap shows that they like it like that, and Jews like to bring it to White areas: Marxism is demon possession, and that Chicago district has three sixes in its post-code etcetrialgog
“Blacks are invariably the most violent, least intelligent, most destructive, least productive, most narcissistic, and least admirable group in any western society.” – Tobias Langdon …. That is irrefutable.
“Philadelphia and Chicago suffer from two things: more concentrated segregation and more concentrated violence.” … If that is some veiled suggestion the violence wouldn’t be such a problem if all the niggers weren’t in the same neighborhoods, the author can go take a flying f*ck at a rolling doughnut. Niggers bring violence, degradation and destruction everywhere they go, so it would be best for any reasonably sane society to concentrate and isolate them together. Hell, I’d be agreeable to giving them a couple of their own states, with the caveat they get executed if trying to cross the border.
My primary residence was in a black majority city, New Orleans, for many years, so I witnessed first-hand the “joys” of diversity. I left a few years ago and never looked back, and upon reflection, I can’t believe I kept a home there as long as I did. The worst problem there, by far, was black “culture”.
More ZOG propaganda to generate sympathy for the simians from the white Christian-Communist egalitarian moronic masses..The MSM (Marxist Soviet Media) will assert that ‘white supremacy’ has caused the simians to destroy the city, shoot each other, & morph it into another African pit: Chicongo.
thats good ! everybody his own judge .
arms for everybody ! we dont need police
of evil, corrupt state cheating the people .
first kill traitors !
be sure no one of the billionary jew plutocrates
would like to live in windy cities like Detroit,Chikago .
they prefere karibic + pacific tropical paradise islands !
Mayor ET phone morgue..
There’s a low brow TV series we get in the UK serving as a documentary on Chicago. It’s called “Hard Core Pawn” and is very illuminating – minus some scripting – on the behaviour of the inhabitants who use a Jewish pawnbroker in the city. The level of entitlement and stupidity is breath-taking…
sounds like london
250 black gangs working greater london
now polish russian and ukranian gangs fighting among themselves hindu and muslims
fighting and sikhs at war with the black gangs the london posse and the alack hatters
Muslim men grooming and raping school girls across the nation
and government close 600 police stations close last year
UK politicians = shit for brains
please god for Britain-first
‘Praetorian gourd’ is being disingenuous when he states that the lawlessness naturally happens in the poorest areas first. That was rarely true in the poor, White working class areas before our societies were overwhelmed by Third World invaders, but is always true in the areas infested by blacks and hispanics. Virtually all the areas of Europe that have general societal breakdown and lawlessness are overwhelmingly non-White.
@Simon Smith
Most if not all of it, is scripted/staged. The show takes place in Detroit.
Chicago is exactly the way jews planned it to be.
@Mengele
Thanks for the correction…
Silly me, confusing Detroit with Chicago 🙂
I think Nico X called himself Mengele before; this dishonesty makes him worthless, like a Jew