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I cannot find a city above 50000 people with a higher violent crime rate than Atlanta had in 1990. The only one that comes close is Miami in the early 1980's cocaine war days. This is according to FBI uniform crime reports and Atlanta's violent crime rate was 4499.3 per 100000 in 1990.
In 1995 Gary, Indiana recorded 132 homicides with about 108K residents. 122 per 100K.
In 1994 New Orleans had 421 homicides with about 490K residents. 86 per 100K.
In 1991 Washington DC had 479 homicides with about 600K residents. 80 per 100K.
I don't think I've ever seen a higher homicide rate for a US city then Gary, Indiana in 1995. I know some areas in NYC (that had populations as big or bigger as Gary itself) in the late 80's and early 90's had homicides rates around 125 per 100K (South Bronx, Brownsville, Bed-Stuy, Lower East Side) but obviously they were factored in with NYC's homicide rate as a whole.
I don't think I've ever seen a higher homicide rate for a US city then Gary, Indiana in 1995. I know some areas in NYC (that had populations as big or bigger as Gary itself) in the late 80's and early 90's had homicides rates around 125 per 100K (South Bronx, Brownsville, Bed-Stuy, Lower East Side) but obviously they were factored in with NYC's homicide rate as a whole.
That's ridiculous.
Greater Harlem (defined as 110th to 155th and 96th on up on the East Side) had 243 murders in 1990 with a population of 330K. It was technically "hotter" back then than Bed-Stuy, Brownsville and East New York.
In 1995 Gary, Indiana recorded 132 homicides with about 108K residents. 122 per 100K.
In 1994 New Orleans had 421 homicides with about 490K residents. 86 per 100K.
In 1991 Washington DC had 479 homicides with about 600K residents. 80 per 100K.
I don't think I've ever seen a higher homicide rate for a US city then Gary, Indiana in 1995. I know some areas in NYC (that had populations as big or bigger as Gary itself) in the late 80's and early 90's had homicides rates around 125 per 100K (South Bronx, Brownsville, Bed-Stuy, Lower East Side) but obviously they were factored in with NYC's homicide rate as a whole.
I'm assuming you're talking about cities with a population of 100,000+ or 50,000+... East Palo Alto had a rate of 172.7/100,000 in 1992 with 24,322 people and 42 homicides in 1992.
Greater Harlem (defined as 110th to 155th and 96th on up on the East Side) had 243 murders in 1990 with a population of 330K. It was technically "hotter" back then than Bed-Stuy, Brownsville and East New York.
I'm talking about certain precincts or specific areas in those sections. If you broke it down you might be able to find an area in Harlem with 100K residents where the homicide rate matched Gary's, but when encompassing all of Harlem the homicide rate is lower. The Lower East Side, I believe the 7th precinct, had a homicide rate of 118 per 100K in 1991 and so did a few other precincts at the time (a couple in Brooklyn and a couple in the Bronx). My point was just to say that although Gary had the highest homicide rate for a city I had ever seen it doesn't necessarily mean other places didn't have as high homicide rates, they just weren't cities themselves but sections of cities.
I'm talking about certain precincts or specific areas in those sections. If you broke it down you might be able to find an area in Harlem with 100K residents where the homicide rate matched Gary's, but when encompassing all of Harlem the homicide rate is lower. The Lower East Side, I believe the 7th precinct, had a homicide rate of 118 per 100K in 1991 and so did a few other precincts at the time (a couple in Brooklyn and a couple in the Bronx). My point was just to say that although Gary had the highest homicide rate for a city I had ever seen it doesn't necessarily mean other places didn't have as high homicide rates, they just weren't cities themselves but sections of cities.
The Lower East Side (7th) probably had around a murder rate of 30 per 100k (was 0 last year). Using current population numbers, one South Bronx precinct (41st) had a murder rate around 84 per 100k, adjusting for the lower population then it might have much higher. No other precinct was anywhere near as high, though another South Bronx precinct (44th precinct) had a murder rate around 160 per 100k but that was mostly from the Happy Land fire. You could also say Tribeca had a really high murder rate in 2001...
I cannot find a city above 50000 people with a higher violent crime rate than Atlanta had in 1990. The only one that comes close is Miami in the early 1980's cocaine war days. This is according to FBI uniform crime reports and Atlanta's violent crime rate was 4499.3 per 100000 in 1990.
Table on disastercenter is outdated, the population numbers for Atlanta where eventually corrected.
Chester PA. (this is probably the largest agency under 50k that had a very high violent crime rate)
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1986 - 4,140.5
1988 - 4,218.8
1990 - 5,191.6
1991 - 4,734.8
1992 - 4,567.1
1993 - 4,670.8
1994 - 5,073.7
1995 - 5,484.2
1996 - 5,063.5
1997 - 4,751.0
1998 - 3,922.7
Little Rock, Arkansas was really bad in the 90's. I think the Rock had more murders then LA, Oakland, and NYC.
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