Black kids were already exposed to more gun violence than white kids. The pandemic widened that gap, writes JosiahBates
49 million overall in the country) lived in a neighborhood that experienced at least one fatal shooting each year from 2015 to 2019. Among those nine million, the exposure risk for Black kids was 4.4 times higher than for white kids. For Hispanic kids, it was 2.1 times higher.During the first year of the pandemic, the nine million increased to 11 million and the majority of that increase was experienced in Black and brown communities.
“Not only were the disparities reproduced during the pandemic, they actually got more severe,” Jonathan Jay, a professor at Boston University and co-author of the study, tells TIME. “We knew during the pandemic that gun violence was increasing across the U.S., so to see the disparity increase didn’t surprise us. The pandemic was just reproducing social disadvantages across multiple dimensions of marginalization, including race.
What did stand out to Jay were some of the geographical differences they found. According to the study, the South saw the highest overall rates of gun violence exposure among children—but the racial disparities were most apparent in the Northwest and the Midwest. “To us, that speaks to the extent to which residential segregation matters, because the Northeast and the Midwest are the most segregated,” Jay says. Some of the
cities in the U.S. include Detroit; Chicago; Newark, N.J.; and Cleveland. ” Those regions have higher levels of safety but they don’t distribute safety equally.”
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