Prof. Jens Ludwig comments for ABC News
June 12, 2024

In a piece about the growing trend of retro-fitting Glock fire-arms to become automatic machine guns and mass gun violence, Prof. Jens Ludwig, co-director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab was asked to comment: 

From a public safety perspective, from a public health perspective, this is a problem that, unfortunately, is disproportionately concentrated in the country's most economically vulnerable communities of color, Ludwig told ABC News. 

 

Read the full piece here. 

Jens Ludwig
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Jens Ludwig
Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor

On urban poverty, Ludwig has participated in the evaluation of a HUD-funded residential-mobility experiment that provides low-income public housing families the opportunity to relocate to private-market housing. In the area of crime, Ludwig has written extensively about gun-violence prevention.