i live in chicago. gun crime is localized to certain parts of city.

Is it the same with knife crime?

Violent crimes in general in the UK (at least) are more localised to who you are. Random acts of violence on bystanders are very rare, the vast majority are attacks by someone known to the victim, often gang related.

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turkey99 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’ve never seen any knife crime anywhere.

There isn’t really any location. Its socioeconomic. It’s young black men 16-24 who disproportionately end up dying to knife crime.

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sourcegrift 8 hours ago | parent [-]

What are the root causes behind "socio-economic"?

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geysersam 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There are many. It's an umbrella term for a range of circumstances that tend to be correlated with poverty and social issues.

Low trust in society, few opportunities to improve economic situation, higher prevalence of trauma and ptsd, higher probability of substance abuse, low opportunity cost for going to jail, fewer good role models, worse self esteem, worse education outcomes, worse physical health, higher likelihood of being involved in organized crime, higher likelihood of depending on parallel social structures for safety and protection, etc.

Each can be cause or effect in a self reinforcing network. Picking one single root cause isn't really possible.

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mothballed 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

One seems to be culture.

For instance, I was caught between a knife fight on a train, because in one hood some of the culture is it's unacceptable to play another culture's music too loud. A Hispanic guy was playing hispanic music quite loud on the train, as soon as it entered a black neighborhood a black guy informed him it was "his hood" and asked him to stop, which then escalated to both pulling out knives.

I have now learned there are certain socio-economic enclaves where culture has dictated that I must not play my music too loud or I will be stabbed to death.

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frereubu 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In London? Where was this?

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mothballed 7 hours ago | parent [-]

San Diego

	▲	frereubu 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ah, gotcha - I misread.

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jasonmp85 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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badgersnake 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’ve lived here my whole life and I’ve never seen any knife crime.

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cucumber3732842 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I live in "one of those parts" of "one of those cities" specifically to get away from white (in spirit if not also complexion) people with no real problems (or more specifically, what they do to a local government).

As long as you don't make activities outside of the law a non-negligible source of your income or run with the crowd that does you're fine, and not just for murder or whatever, theft and all sorts of the boring "area under the curve" crime is concentrated around these people too.

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jeffbee 8 hours ago | parent [-]

For homicide this is very correct. You could live dead center in the statistically most violent block of Chicago and still cut your personal risk of being a homicide victim by 1) not being a criminal, and 2) not posting diss raps to your 11 followers on Soundcloud. There are not really dangerous neighborhoods but there are dangerous social networks.

	▲	doubled112 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'm also a big believer that "head up, voice down" will reduce your likelihood of becoming a target. People don't usually bring trouble to themselves for no reason. Don't give them a reason.
	▲	mothballed 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And not having any vehicle problems, because you usually only are rolling through bad areas to get to better areas. Most people in violent cities have no occasion to stop in violent areas. On one occasion I was forced to work overnight for critical hospital operations in a bad part of town, on my way back my tire went flat and when I was distracted fixing it the locals noticed I was weak and they put a gun to my head.