Chicago Crime Research Paper

“All told, seven people were killed, and more than two dozen were injured” (Hunter). This is very unfortunate because it took a tragedy for politicians to stop blaming the “negro” population; however, politicians did not take the blame. Policians portrayed an image of understanding and action when in reality it was a little too late; their neglect resulted in fatal consequences. Housing reform was now the main goal in order to stabilize this crippled community. However, this late housing reform after the tragedy in 1936 led to urban decay of the Seventh Ward; many were migrating out of the Seventh Ward in search for housing elsewhere. Turmoil in the city led to an uninhabitable location, leaving the once booming black Seventh Ward as an abandoned parking lot and a memory of what it once

New Orleans is one of the most murderous cities in America but in 2013 the crime rate decreased by twenty percent compared to the year before. In 2012, one hundred and ninety-three people were murdered and in 2013, one hundred and fifty-five people were killed. Doctors use a different technique for those who were shot and wounded, which they say those victims survive from. This technique brought the murder rate down by fifteen percent. Non-profit Organizations, job opportunities, and rebuilding neighborhoods also helped the crime rate. These initiatives are a way to get younger people off the streets by mentoring and educating at risk youth.

“In a county of 10 million people, the unincorporated Westmont neighborhoods is among the deadliest places to live” (Santa Cruz & Schwencke). The South Los Angeles neighborhood of Westmont is infamously known for its violence. The area’s population is 31,467 people and is primarily made up of African Americans and Hispanics. Many residents either have just a highschool diploma or even less than that. In fact only 5.7% of residents have a four-year degree while there is a high percentage of residents with less than a highschool diploma. Westmont’s households median average is $31,572. Even though Westmont is a fairly small neighborhood, it is ranked 12th in the Los Angeles violent crimes and has had 257 violent crimes in the past six months

The violence in Chicago is a something that has remain fresh with me but has slowly gain awareness in the media. To the point that many are embracing the newly minted term Chiraq. Chiraq is a term given to the city Chicago, because there are more murders and violence that occur in Chicago than the war in Iraq. I originally thought this epidemic was the concern of all residents of Chicago. I soon later learned that people I have encountered did not share the feeling of importance of the countless lives lost due to gun violence and police brutality.

Oak Park, Sacramento is an area known for high rates of crime and low-income households that local residents would agree with. Organizations such as the Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services, the Community Against Sexual Harm (CASH), the Salvation Army, the Sacramento Area Emergency Housing, the Women’s Civic Improvement Club and Wellspring Women’s Center are organizations that work to assist the community during rough times. South Oak Park is part of District 6 in Sacramento, which has the highest total of murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, and vehicle theft than any other district of Sacramento (“Neighborhood Crime & Maps,” n.d.).

Over the past three years Chicago violent has kept at a steady rate causing terror and for a generation to lose hope. According to the 2013 FBI Crime Report; someone is shot in Chicago every three hours and 16 minutes, an individual dies from a gunshot every 18 hours. The black on back crime rate is about 90%. In 2014 the FBI Crime Report, reported that even though Chicago’s population is one fourth of the size of New York, it has nearly five times the homicides. This year Chicago crime has taken a turn for the worst, with a devastating murder that was truly shocked the nation and was a first for its kind. Tyshawn Lee was a 9-year-old boy who was lured into an alley and shot execution style, as retaliation for his father’s gang affiliation.

The reason why I say this is because one of the key things I feel that makes Chicago so violent, is because most children and teenager’s brains are not taught well that violence is not the way out to whatever situation they have going on in their lives. According to United States Department of Justice, Facts about Children and Violence, “Children exposed to violence are also at a higher risk of engaging in criminal behavior later in life becoming part of a cycle of violence.” Whatever they have experienced or been taught is how they will react to any situation which may just be violence or drugs and alcohol. That is why the murder rate from teenagers is so high because they feel the beats and lyrics in some of the music that they listen to and react how certain artists portray themselves and others in their songs. They probably feel as though this gives them the power to do anything they want to do far as killing people or selling drugs, much more because a lot of music artists today only talks about violence in their songs. While talking to children and a few camp counselor I learned that children feel intimidated when adults see them and don’t speak so one of the things adults can do to stand up to help the environment is to engage more with one another and children to make the kids feel safe rather than on edge which can lead to

Moreover, research findings demonstrated that a variety of other youth violence prevention programs were active during the same period of time when Chicago CeaseFire was ongoing. Thus, the high success rate might also be due to other mediating influences that prevailed in the environment during that time (Boyle et. al., 2010; Papachristos, 2011). Newark Operation Ceasefire also experienced something similar. Other prevention programs were simultaneously operating near the CF zone, which caused no additional reduction in gunshot wound in the CF zone. For example, Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a coordinated effort of United States Attorney 's Office on reducing gun violence, was also active during the time Newark Ceasefire was operating (Department of Justice, 2014). Thus, it might have impacted Ceasefire Newark 's result and

Turner was a young teenager who was shot in a drive by near the University of Chicago hospital. He was turned down from the hospital because they had no trauma center as he was in a serious condition and needed to be treated in a trauma center. The nearest one was Northwestern Hospital, which was much further than U of C Hospital. He was pronounced dead on the way to Northwestern Hospital (ABC7 Chicago, 2015). Being an area with a high rate of violence, the South Side needs a trauma center to meet the growing needs of its population. The University of Chicago hospital is currently in the process of planning to add a trauma center for this reason. Many residents have been protesting and campaigning for action to be taken in building the center, but it has not been easy to make a change mainly due to financial issues. It will cost millions of dollars to design a new building, yet a community in violence, this center is highly

The murder rate is alarming for the city that houses the leader of the free world. The deeply segregated community is probably the reason why the urgency to address the violence is taking long (Taylor).” The real problem of crime and violence is in the poor and working class communities of color” (Taylor). The violence in Chicago should be depicted as “poverty-on-poverty instead of black-on-black because the actual source of the tension is in the headline” (Taylor).

The safety net in Detroit is in a crisis. According to the report, “hospital beds have disappeared, physicians have moved away, clinics have closed their doors, and emergency departments have been overwhelmed.” As a result, many low-income Medicaid, underinsured and uninsured Detroit residents lack access to adequate and comprehensive health care, especially primary and specialty care services.

Detroit tops Forbes list of the "Most Dangerous Cities" this year for the fifth year in a row. What is encouraging is that the crime rate in the Motor City actually declined last year, despite devestating financial woes that drove Detroit into the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. Crime affects the people of Detroit and the city’s reputation, employment, income and education. It needs to be contained and reduced to make Detroit prosper and make the lives of the people living there better.  Detroit had 316 murders in 2013, a rate of 45 per 100,000 people. That 's the highest rate among cities with populations over 100,000. In 2013 Detroit also reported 14,504 violent crimes. That 's also the highest per capita rate in the nation, according to the annual report. The total is comprised of rapes, murder, robbery and aggravated assault.

You can drive through Philadelphia and observe how compartmentalized and racially segregated the city is. Massey argues that racial segregation and poverty actually compound the effect of social disorder exposure to violence (2004). Peterson notes that the inequality in capital and cultural goals results in “…frustration and alienation that are reflected in criminal and deviant patterns” (Peterson 1993). Segregation and poverty’s negative effect on social order is so strong that it actually has a negative biosocial effect on the health of populations which is discussed by Massey (2004). Basically, the longer a community is exposed to social disorder, the health of its population is further negatively impacted across multiple body systems including the cardiovascular and nervous systems (Massey 2004). Unfortunately for many residents of Philadelphia, they qualify as living both in poverty and segregation which may be play a role in the amount of violence they are exposed

Violent Crime - The Violent Crime Rate in St. Louis City is up from last year: 18.26 (violent) to 19%, but overall crimes are down from 81.90 (all) to 78.7% and St. Louis County: violent crimes are up to 3.8%, and all crimes are up to 28.4%. Over the last 10 years, the number of St. Louis violent crime is higher than the U.S. average. Crimes has continued to sky rocketed post Ferguson Uprising. As of 2016, because of the high crime rate in St. Louis City it continues to be labeled as “America’s murder capital” surpassing Detroit and Chicago. St. Louis remains ranked 42nd out of the 50 largest metro areas in the country in economic mobility. That means that it is more difficult for someone here to get from the bottom of the rungs to the top rungs of the economic ladder than it is just about anywhere. When people do not have equal opportunity to thrive, the entire region pays the price therefore the Ferguson Commission has

Midwestern city has a staggering 145 murders occurred in the last year reported, giving thins