Comment by aprilthird2021
9 months ago
I lived in Chicago for 3 months and heard them twice a week (minimum), but I lived in the South Side, South of U Chicago.
Gun violence is largely local and contained between people who know each other in the US. City-wide stats obscure the concentration of crime in specific neighborhoods in most American cities
Yup, it will very much depend on where you live or travel. I lived on the Northside. If you avoid localized areas with high gun violence, you will very rarely ever encounter it.
The areas surrounding University of Chicago were historically some of the worst areas in the entire city for gun violence.
Many cities actually have crime heat maps that can show you the most dangerous areas and can be filtered by crime type (murder, assault, property crime, etc).