STOP SHOOTIN graffiti
Signs asking for an end to gun violence are found across Chicago. Bill Healy / WBEZ
STOP SHOOTIN graffiti
Signs asking for an end to gun violence are found across Chicago. Bill Healy / WBEZ

A team of researchers compared risk of violence in Chicago to risks that faced troops in Iraq and Afghanistan war zones. Their findings are sobering, and they say survivors of gun violence need resources to address trauma.

Reset talks to one of the researchers and a local reporter.

GUESTS: Brandon Del Pozo, Brown University researcher and former police officer

Frank Main, staff reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times

STOP SHOOTIN graffiti
Signs asking for an end to gun violence are found across Chicago. Bill Healy / WBEZ
STOP SHOOTIN graffiti
Signs asking for an end to gun violence are found across Chicago. Bill Healy / WBEZ

A team of researchers compared risk of violence in Chicago to risks that faced troops in Iraq and Afghanistan war zones. Their findings are sobering, and they say survivors of gun violence need resources to address trauma.

Reset talks to one of the researchers and a local reporter.

GUESTS: Brandon Del Pozo, Brown University researcher and former police officer

Frank Main, staff reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times