Jessica Bennett discussed 50 years of Ms. in 10 months involved cars with automated components.Ī former Google video producer is suing the company, claiming he was fired after he complained an obscure religious sect was dominating his workplace. Shots could be available next week.Ī man has confessed to killing a British journalist and a Brazilian expert on Indigenous peoples in the Amazon. advisers recommended the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for young children. will give Ukraine another $1 billion in aid and weapons.į.D.A. The flooding chaos in Yellowstone is a sign of crises to come for America’s national parks. But logging operations are devastating the rainforests that absorb carbon dioxide. The Congo Basin is crucial to guarding the climate. The Justice Department charged the Buffalo shooting suspect with hate crimes. Rural America is also reeling from violent crime, The Wall Street Journal reports. Is the Senate’s bipartisan gun safety deal the most significant firearm legislation in years, or strictly limited? Depends which party is promoting it.Īddressing crime is increasingly a central concern within the Democratic Party. Like Vaughn, they come to expect it - and worry that they could be the next victim. But for people in the hardest-hit communities, violence is a fact of daily life. So for most Americans, violence is something they may hear about on the news but do not deal with on a regular basis. Coupled with a police force that fails to solve most murders and shootings, the cycle becomes difficult to break.īy contrast, other communities have a host of social supports keeping violence at bay, including good jobs, better schools, well-kept parks and recreation centers, and responsive police. Poverty leads to violence, which leads to disinvestment, which leads to more poverty and violence. What I saw exemplifies a vicious cycle that causes the concentration of violence in an area, experts said. Outside their homes, the sound of gunshots is common.

They all had stories of dead friends and family members killed in gang shootings, episodes of domestic violence or road rage, or during petty conflicts over women - the shootings sometimes just days or weeks apart. Speaking to Black activists and residents in Chicago, I was struck by how they spoke almost dispassionately about the violence around them. The vast majority of shootings never make national headlines. In Chicago, public outrage over a shooting last month that killed a 16-year-old boy downtown - a richer, whiter area - prompted the mayor to impose a curfew for minors.īut that is the kind of violence that poorer, minority communities deal with daily, with little to no public attention. That happened nationwide this year after mass shootings in schools and grocery stores, where Americans can imagine themselves or loved ones falling victim. Only when violence hits closer to home does it typically grab more people’s attention. Almost all of the victims were on the city’s South and West Sides, which are mostly Black and brown.

In Chicago, 51 people were shot in Chicago over Memorial Day weekend - a five-year high. The concentration of violence has another effect: It pushes violence out of sight for most people. So while the numbers are typically reported through a national lens, the reality on the ground is that a small slice of the population - disproportionately poor, Black and brown - suffers the most from it. The disparities have held up as murders have spiked across the country since 2020.

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