Trump’s worthless approach to fighting crime in Chicago (opinion)
CNNEditor’s Note: Jens Ludwig is the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academies of Science. A total of just 10 gun stores account for fully one of five of Chicago’s crime guns. While it’s true that America has a lot of guns already in circulation, other research by Cook and Pollack, with Kailey White, a sociology PhD student at the University of Chicago, shows that criminals have a strong preference for newer guns, presumably so they don’t get caught with someone else’s crime gun. More federal attention to the gun dealers that supply so many crime guns in Chicago is one thing that could actually help a lot in the short run. The Century Foundation issued a report this week, for example, showing that to bring Chicago’s per-student public school spending even just up to the national average would require more than $6,000 additional spending per student, an increase of over one-third of its current spending level of $16,000.
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