Interesting Correlation
Want to bet that the CTU uses this as an excuse not to close schools?
As Chicago officials prepared to close 50 schools in 2013, the most at one time in American history, neighbors warned that the ramifications would go beyond worse academic outcomes for students. They worried the vacant buildings left behind would hurt their communities.
Thirteen years later, a new study from the University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has found that the closings, in fact, led to a 10% increase in gun violence in the areas surrounding the vacant closed schools compared to neighborhoods with similar demographics where schools didn’t close.
The researchers found no statistically significant increase in shootings in communities where closed schools were repurposed, which city officials promised would happen.
“We found that school closure and subsequent building vacancy were associated with significant increases in firearm violence in affected neighborhoods, and that this association appeared to be partially mitigated by subsequent school buildings re-use,” the authors wrote in the study, published in the journal Social Science & Medicine.
Interesting take - that closed schools (or schools that don't get re-purposed) lead to more gun crime? Schools mitigate conflict?
Color us skeptical at the very least.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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Blame anything but the committer of the crimes. Now a vacant school. Since when do they attend anyway? Aren't they too busy sleeping off mayhem from the prior night?
Schools are like lawless daycare centers for people and folks.
CPS are just publicly funded babysitters.
"Interesting take" indeed!
So now it's the structure's fault that gun violence increases, not the local ferals.
Any product of a U of C "study" should be considered biased. Happy to see the wilding hitting Hyde Park.
If you repurpose them as prisons, then yes shootings will go down.
Knock them down and sell the land. This solves one problem and makes money for the cash-strapped city.
The contortions these “experts” went through to come up with this must have been circus worthy.
However, it’s easier to create a problem when you already have the answer you want.
Re-purpose the larger ones into ICE detention centers. Bull doze the rest.
Bloomberg FUNDS Johns Hopkins studies.
So there's that.
Perhaps the violence that often leads to people fleeing a community and its schools are related. An increasingly violent community doesn’t become less violent after they close a school? That surprises some? However if the community can still attract new enterprises to a vacant school could that be because violence is viewed as under control and gentrification is seen, by some, to be a possibility. A gang that dominated a school now uses the vacant school as a gathering place in high crime areas. Could a gang view it as “their” territory just as they did when the school was open. What were the odds? I haven’t read the study but the claims make you say “what”
Tear all those closed schools down. The "community" loves its vacant lots.
Make brothels out of them....
It just mirrors all the violence that occurs around the schools that are still open. Bogus egghead study.
re: "led to a 10% increase in gun violence in the areas surrounding the vacant closed schools"
How much 'rounding up' did they do to the numbers making up this 10% stat?
What were the criteria that was screened for coming up with the numbers?
Would security cameras make any difference (smile: You're being recorder!) to gun crime in the 'area'?
How about shot-spotter network activation - any beneficial affect on stats (lower gun crime) from activating that?
Use the closed schools for midnight basketball
Chicago should turn over control of any closed schools to the Feds to be used as ICE detention facilities.
Causation doesn’t equal correlation.
This is DEI research at its finest. It looks like something written in the Soviet era to appease Stalin. Research with a desired result is propaganda.
That would work.
Brilliantly put!!
Correlation does mean causation....and does this mean if a new gunshot detection is ever re-installed in Chicago these closed schools should be prime locations for their placement?
True. You could turn CPS over to Somalis, and get the same results much more cheaply.
Maybe mayor BJ the Clown can post some violence interuptors in these shuttered schools. Then the government grift can continue until the democrats regain some power. The city of Chicago needs to be able to rely on these "Learing centers" to continue to get out the democrat vote. Every one of these fatal shootings represents a lost "low information democrat voter"
I worked the schools. The savages would walk out of class when the bell rang spitting to the ground and dropping they empty skittles and chip bags. The savage beast makes honest hard working Black People look bad. And there are few enough already
And these schools are given grant money to contort these moronic findings
Yet another property scavenger hustler, touting the idiotic lie of raising revenue for "the city".
With acres of barren lands already cleared of any lingering evidence of human constructions, with the morlocks having built their grifters' monument to greed smack dab in the middle of a formerly community parkland, with this fake concern for these communities devoid of any graft free interest in "re purposing" these sturdy cps structures, built long before the times of our present democratic grifters' hog trough insatiable appetites, this craving for demolitions is full of the same shit that never fails to stink.
I would vote for rahm just to close schools
They should do a study on the correlation with store front churches and churches in the communities, now that would a good read.
Did you put that backward to be funny?
Is a closed school still gun free zone, or do they remove the signs? Maybe that’s the problem.
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