A Tale of Two Cities: Persistently High Homicide Rates in Baltimore City Compared With Significant Declines in New York City

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Fla.
• ² Senior at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School (and shooting survivor), Parkland, Fla.
• ³ Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
• ⁴ Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Fla. Electronic address: PROFCHHMD@prodigy.net.