Chaeyoung Cheon; Yuzhou Lin; David J. Harding, PhD; Wei Wang, PhD; Dylan S. Small, PhD
Substantial racial disparities exist for gun homicide deaths in the US: the 2003 to 2017 age-adjusted rate was 7.4 times higher for Black individuals than for White individuals.
That is that blacks were 7.4 times as likely to be murder victims as whites, from CDC data. (Note that CDC victimization data does a pretty good job of breaking out whites from Hispanics, unlike FBI offending data.) The ratio of black murder offending rates goes unsaid.
Walker et al found an even greater disparity in Chicago and suggested that because race may be a surrogate for income, public health interventions should aim to alleviate poverty in order to reduce gun violence. However, in Philadelphia, Black individuals of the same income level as White individuals were at higher risk of being shot, suggesting that public policies to reduce gun violence and racial disparities might need to go beyond alleviating poverty.
In Yarmouth History
Daniel Pierce
This page was created by the Historical Society of Old Yarmouth in cooperation with The Register Newspaper in 2002 to promote the study of history in the Mid-Cape region.
150 Years Ago: March 1871
March 4th Osterville - A daughter of Mr. James Codd, aged ten years, on Friday last, picked up a loaded pistol in the street, she took it to school with her, placing it in her cloak pocket. In some way, one of the charges was exploded, the ball entering the upper part of her bowels. A surgeon failed to reach the ball by probing, and though the child lived there was little hope of her recovery.She died on Thursday.