Regardless of socioeconomic status, Black communities face higher gun homicides
Regardless of socioeconomic status, Black communities face higher gun homicides In a Wharton study, chair of the Statistics Department Dylan Small says reasons for the disparity include institutional racism, underinvestment in communities, and housing segregation. Memorial to victims of gun violence in Philadelphia. (Image: Michael Stokes) Majority Black neighborhoods have higher gun homicide rates than mostly white neighborhoods of the same socioeconomic status level, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open by Wharton Professor D...