GVPanorama: The Recovery From COVID-19 Pandemic Gun Violence
Which big cities have best stemmed gun violence post-pandemic?
Despite right wing bellowing and media mimicking, crime has, for the most part, gone down nationally since the ostensible “end” of the COVID-19 pandemic around the end of 2021. Of course that reality varies on a city-by-city basis, and today’s GVPanorama is a dive into the numbers, particularly concerning gun violence.
Vital City — a research-driven urban policy journal — looked at the Gun Violence Archive numbers to offer a data review across 91 major U.S. cities “to try to identify patterns of gun violence and see which cities, on average, trended similarly to one another.” The results offer some surprises.
“In all, five unique groups of cities experienced differences in gun violence, with some experiencing spikes while others did not, thereby demonstrating that the gun violence trends after the COVID-19 spike were not similarly experienced by many of the nation’s largest cities.”
Check out the full article here.
