Young men in Chicago and Philadelphia’s worst neighborhoods are more likely to be shot and killed than those who fought on the bloodiest front-lines in Afghanistan and Iraq, a new study shows.
Brandon del Pozo, a former New York City cop and now Brown University scholar, says gun deaths among young men in those city’s ghettos are worse than seen by troops deployed in America’s war on terror.
Del Pozo, who started out in law enforcement patrolling streets in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, called his research an ‘urgent wake-up call’ for tackling gun crime and murder rates in the grittiest cities.
