In großen US-Städten nehmen die schießfreien Tage ab. Zwischen 2015 und 2024 ging die Gesamtzahl der Tage ohne Schusswaffenschießereien in allen zehn größten US-Städten bis auf eine zurück. San Diego hatte bei allen vier Kennzahlen durchweg die höchste Anzahl an Tagen, während Chicago durchweg die niedrigste Anzahl an Tagen aufwies.
https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/shooting-free-days-decline-major-u-s-cities-new-metric-aims-building-sustained-periods-peace
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Shooting-Free Days Decline in Major U.S. Cities; New Metric Aims at Building Sustained Periods of Peace
Between 2015 and 2024, the total number of days without firearm shootings declined in all but one of the ten largest U.S. cities—pointing to the need to newly focus on building and sustaining periods of peace with zero shootings.
Specific findings:
San Diego consistently exhibited the highest numbers of days across all four metrics, whereas Chicago consistently had the lowest. Rankings for the other cities were as follows: Phoenix (2), Jacksonville (3), San Antonio (4), Dallas-Fort Worth (5), Houston (6), New York City (7), Los Angeles (8), Philadelphia (9).
For those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2845976
Hit we aren’t gonna talk about who is shooting who and take steps to address the specific issues, because it’s racist to discuss facts
Always so weird to me that these sorts of papers can get published without any attempt at proving that the metric they came up with is in any way more informative than existing ones.
Why is this written like a double negative? Shooting free days decline means shootings went up?
Counting or not counting gang violence?
2024 and 2025 have likely been some of the safest years in American history as far as murders go.
Every time I see metric comparing cities I’m a bit skeptical. “Shooting free days” is just not going to be a comparable metric between NYC (population: 8.4MM) and San Diego (population: 1.4MM).
Even if you adjust for city size, you still run into issues because some cities are a small slice of a large metro area whereas others are a very large portion of their metro area. The legal jurisdiction that we call “Phoenix” is primarily middle class and wealthy suburbs, whereas the legal jurisdiction that we call “Philadelphia” is a large, predominantly poor city that includes almost none of its wealthy suburbs. It would probably be better to compare the poorest or most dangerous zip codes in cities to each other or to compare entire metro areas to each other, because there is too much variability in what constitutes a city to compare cities.