Violence in the Big Apple throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: A borough-specific analysis.

ABSTRACT: In early 2020, the world faced a rapid, life-changing, public health crisis in the form of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The pandemic and its associated social-distancing measures collided with a period of social unrest following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police and persisted for nearly two years following its emergence. The current study adds to existing research by examining the effect of these events on the incidence of violence (shootings and assaults) in New York City (NYC) over a longer period of time, both in the city as a whole and at the borough-level. To accomplish this, the current study draws from publicly available data using series of analytical techniques to account for underlying trends, seasonality, and temperature while also estimating

SUBMITTER: Wolff KT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9095435 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature