Non-fatal firearm violence across 17 US cities using police dashboard data, 2020–2025
Maureen R. Benjamins, Cameron De La Huerta, Nazia S. Saiyed, Madison Offstein, Melissa Gutierrez-Kapheim, Ashley Wolf · 2026
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Benjamins and colleagues mapped in 2026 non-fatal firearm violence across United States cities using public police dashboards. Non-fatal shootings are a large public health burden, yet few cities publish local data on them. The team searched for cities with open dashboards reporting police-recorded non-fatal firearm violence, then compared counts, rates, and trends from 2020 to 2025.
Benjamins found only 17 cities met their criteria. Rates varied nearly eightfold in 2025, from the lowest in Seattle to the highest in Portsmouth, Virginia. Raw counts ranged from under a hundred yearly shootings in Pittsburgh to over fifteen hundred in Chicago. Most cities spiked during the peak pandemic year of 2021 and then declined through 2025. The authors argue open local dashboards would sharpen tracking of firearm injury, allow fair city comparisons, and guide prevention programs.
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| CREATOR | Maureen R. Benjamins, Cameron De La Huerta, Nazia S. Saiyed, Madison Offstein, Melissa Gutierrez-Kapheim, Ashley Wolf |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |