A Temple University research team has examined the people and the places impacted by gun violence during the pandemic. Here's what they found. Siafa_Lewis reports
READ MORE:And incidents of mass shootings — that’s four or more people shot within an hour and within a city block of each other — rose 53%.
“The theory is that people who are already at a significant disadvantage were made more vulnerable by lockdown measures and the absence of social support,” Afif said.“We know that unemployment levels were at an unprecedented high, especially at the start of the pandemic when many people lost their income and health insurance. Social services were stretched thin and then schools were closed with few alternatives for child care,” Afif said.
Other countries have poverty, as well as a lack of opportunity and resources for its poor. This is a uniquely American phenomenon. “I think we really have to start treating gun violence as the public health crisis that it is and that means we need to better understand the underlying causes and how to address it really by tackling the structural issues that make it such a problem in our city and others like it,” Afif said.The study also found that there were increased rates of shootings in parts of northeast, eastern and southwest Philadelphia, plus an increase in mass shootings in Northeast Philadelphia.
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