Open drug markets as risky places for shootings
Gun violence is not random in its dispersal through time and space. It is highly clustered to specific locations, such as open drug markets and “gang”-neighborhoods which taken together can be considered as risky places for gun violence. Such risky places are characterized by having a high criminal network presence, and since the criminal networks tend to be both the victims and the perpetrators of shootings it is perhaps unsurprising to find shootings clustering there. At the risky place the risk for a follow-up incident is in addition much higher than elsewhere, a new shooting occurring nearby within a few weeks, opening up venues for targeted prevention and interventions against gun violence.
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