Young men who live in the most violent zip codes in two major American cities faced a greater risk of being shot and killed than did soldiers in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, according to a new study.
A study led by Brown University researchers found that young men between the ages of 18 and 29 living in Chicago’s most violent zip code (2,585 men) were more than three times as likely to be the victim of a gun-related homicide than soldiers serving in Afghanistan would suffer a “combat death.”
In Philadelphia, young men in the city’s zip code with the highest amount of gun violence (2,448 men) were nearly twice as likely to be killed by a gun than soldiers in Afghanistan.