February 4, 2023
![Chicago police officers at the scene of a fatal shooting of a 24-year-old man last Sept. 2 in the 4400 block of West Jackson Boulevard in West Garfield Park. A new study describes the neighborhood during the COVID-19 pandemic as deadlier than a war zone.](https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/2d7cadf/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1687+0+155/resize/820x461!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FQ89AAASdwUrje5OM3FLuFHj-ZOM%3D%2F0x0%3A3000x1996%2F3000x1996%2Ffilters%3Afocal%281500x998%3A1501x999%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F24405898%2Fmerlin_107876934.jpg)
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, “If you are talking about the historical predicament of young men in Garfield Park, it has never been worse.”
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