Objectives We assessed whether New York City’s gun-related homicide rates in the 1990s were associated with a range of social determinants of homicide rates. Methods We used cross-sectional time-series data for 74 New York City police precincts from 1990...
Firearm deaths remain among the leading causes of mortality in the United States. Changing law enforcement activities, incarceration, drug use, and socioeconomic conditions may have played roles in the declining rates of firearm deaths during the 1990s. Using records...
