A new report published in the medical journal JAMA Network Open found that the most violent ZIP code in Chicago is even deadlier for young men between the ages of 18-29 than what U.S. soldiers faced in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Chicago’s firearm violence led residents to call it “Chiraq.” But do the risks of gun violence in US cities really compare to the risks of war? In a new @JAMANetworkOpen study, our team did the math. The answer: In some US cities, the risks are much worse.https://t.co/iXm6YyeSXL

— Brandon del Pozo, PhD, MPA, MA (@BrandondelPozo) December 22, 2022

The Chicago Sun Times reports: 

“You fight in an Army combat brigade, you come back and say, ‘My God, I was in the thick of it for a year, and look at the risks I faced,’ ” says Brandon del Pozo, a Brown University researcher and former New York City cop who worked with three other scholars to examine violence in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles. “In Garfield Park, these young men face those risks every single year. And the risks accumulate.”

ZIP code 60624 is bordered by Cicero Avenue on the west, Chicago Avenue on the north, Homan Avenue on the east and Roosevelt Road on the south. Garfield Park is in the middle.

Among men ages 18 to 29, the annual rate of firearm homicides in that ZIP code was 1,277 per 100,000 people in 2021 and 2022, the study found, compared with an annual death rate for U.S. troops in a heavily engaged combat brigade in Iraq of 675 per 100,000.

Even when the researchers expanded their sample to include Chicago ZIP codes ranked in the top 10% of violence, young men still faced a greater risk of dying than soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, the study found.

The study also looked at Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles. The most violent ZIP codes in Philadelphia surpassed the risk of combat death by military service members, too, but the death rate there was lower than in Chicago, the study found. New York and Los Angeles didn’t have any areas that were so deadly.

Across all the cities we studied, we found young Black and Hispanic men overwhelmingly bore these warlike risks of firearm death and injury. They were 96% of the victims. In the worst area of Chicago, they faced an annual shooting risk of nearly 6%. https://t.co/esMtenVCSW

— Brandon del Pozo, PhD, MPA, MA (@BrandondelPozo) December 22, 2022

Lori Lightfoot should hang her head in shame.  But she will probably just keep on dancing while her citizens are gunned down.

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Robert “Beto” O’Rourke (L) and Tim Ryan (R)

When they aren’t hosting no-whites allowed events or teaching classes on “The Problem of Whiteness”, the University of Chicago is courting losers to teach at the insitution.

Robert “Beto” O’Rourke and Tim Ryan have been tapped by the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics as Pritzker Fellows to teach politics.

According to the Pritzker Fellows application website, “OP Pritzker Fellows presents a unique opportunity for political and public service leaders to learn and grow. Whether through engaging with students and faculty, auditing classes, or conducting research, The IOP Pritzker Fellows Program provides a rare opportunity to enjoy eight weeks of paid enrichment at one of the world’s great universities.”

“While on campus, Pritzker Fellows lead weekly non-credit discussion seminars on issues of local, national, and international importance. These 75-minute, off-the-record sessions are student-only, and take place at the IOP House.”

“Criteria to become a Pritzker Fellow include the applicant’s background in politics or public service, as well as an ability to work well with students, faculty, and the Fellows cohort. Fellows are chosen via our online application process and through targeted recruitment.”

In the last three election cycles, O’Rourke and Ryan are a combined five time pair of losers.

O’Rourke lost his bid against Texas Senator Ted Cruz in 2018, fizzled out of the 2020 Democrat presidential primary, and failed yet again in the mid-terms against Greg Abbott in the Texas governor’s race.

Tim Ryan was a brief blip in the 2020 Democrat presidential primary and lost the Ohio senatorial race to J.D. Vance.

The College Fix reports:

Anthony Fowler, a public policy professor at the University of Chicago, told The Fix that although “there have probably been more fellows from the political left than the right” he believes the program “gives students the opportunity to learn from and make connections with these prominent and accomplished individuals.”

“Former members of Congress are not, by and large, academic scholars, and we’re bringing them to campus for reasons largely unrelated to their intellectual contributions,” Fowler said. “So students should not think of IOP events as substituting for their work in the classroom.”

Other fellows include former Michigan Congressman Pete Meijer, a Republican who lost his primary in 2022. One of Meijer’s first votes as a new congressman in 2021 was to impeach President Donald Trump.

Former Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak, who lost his re-election bid in 2022, will also join as a fellow.

The program began in 2013 and has since hosted almost 200 fellows. Former Pritzker fellows include Anthony Blinken, the current secretary of state and a former national security advisor to President Barack Obama, Michael Morell, former acting director of the CIA under Obama, and Vox reporter Jane Coaston.

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