![]() ![]() With it has come a further cycling downward. Marshall Hatch, who himself has watched from his pulpit at New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church in West Garfield Park as generations fell victim to the violence and addiction.Īnd now he is seeing the newest threat, COVID-19, take hold. have warned against systemic injustice for years, said the Rev. “This leads to an enforcement and victimization rate in communities of color that eclipses their more well-off neighbors by a factor that should concern us all.” ![]() “The racial and economic divide in Chicago is staggering,” he wrote in a Tribune essay. In Chicago, he said, that has led to overpolicing and civil rights abuses in these areas.īeck, a nationally respected police leader credited with helping reduce crime dramatically in Los Angeles, bluntly acknowledged Chicago’s history of segregation and its economic fallout in his assessment of the city. The focus on the belief that neighborhoods are full of bad people, Stovall said, steers solutions away from solving underlying problems and too far toward law enforcement. We don’t take into account, this is a bad situation." Often the narrative is they are bad people. “If you have someone who has been historically dispossessed (of jobs, housing or education), most crimes are done for survival. “This is what inaccessibility to gainful employment and quality education means,” said David Stovall, a professor of African American Studies and Criminology, Law & Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Young people growing up in extreme poverty and unstable housing, who lack health care, education and access to jobs, become vulnerable at an early age to being swept up in street violence. The second highest, Austin, had a rate of 3.2.Īs Chicago has come to grips with the reality that the coronavirus is taking its greatest toll in minority neighborhoods, officials have attributed the disparity in infections to decades-old inequities in jobs and health care, leaving black Chicagoans with higher baseline rates of the underlying conditions that make the virus more deadly.Īnd some of the same realities affect the rates at which neighborhoods suffer with gun violence, experts told the Tribune. The data also showed that the 60624 ZIP code has a high narcotics crime rate of 11.1 incidents per 1,000 residents. The ZIP code for much of West Englewood has a violent crime rate of 4.2, while ranking sixth for its infection rate. The ZIP code containing much of Austin, which ranked fourth in infection rate during the period examined, also had the fourth highest violent-crime rate of 4.0 incidents. It also has Chicago’s highest violent crime rate of 6.2 per 1,000 residents. The 60624 ZIP code, primarily the Garfield Park communities, for example, ranked third in the rate of infections among the city’s roughly 50 most-populated ZIP codes as the coronavirus was emerging. The 60624 ZIP code, has among the city's highest reported cases of COVID-19 and rates of gun violence. But understanding the ties between zip code and health can help local lawmakers, public-health officials and community representatives begin to level the playing field for their residents, the NYU researchers argue.Members of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge, a fraternal organization, hand out free face masks to residents in the 4000 block of West Monroe Street, May 9, 2020, in Chicago. Links between race, poverty and health have been reinforced by years of inequality, and disentangling them won’t be easy. The cities with the widest gaps in life expectancy, the NYU researchers found, were those that were most segregated by race and ethnicity, with predominantly minority neighborhoods often facing obstacles-like poverty, untenable housing costs, unemployment and subpar social services-that didn’t affect majority white neighborhoods to the same degree. But it’s also a more subtle indicator of socioeconomic factors that are inherent to health and longevity, including race and income. Where you live directly affects your health in a number of ways, from exposure to air pollution and toxins to accessibility of healthy food, green space and medical care. A zip code’s influence on the health of those living there is multifold. ![]()
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