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Nah. I don't think NYC will get dangerous no time soon. If it did it wouldn't be anything significant. Just because a couple of stupid tourists flaunting their ipods or whatever gets robbed on a subway doesn't mean crime is going up. That type of stuff happens all the time, the only reason they were robbed was because they were unaware and vulnerable, it's not like they ran up to some random person and ran their pockets for no reason.
the funny thing is nyc actually surged in increase of crime in the beginning of 2010 and still has a increase in murders as of now. most of the cities people picked are experiencing lows in violent crime , and are continuing to do so.
a lot of people making these list are just paranoid if you ask me.
Statistically crime will probably be down in NYC for the next 500 years but realistically most of the city has been getting slightly more dangerous for the past couple years I personally know despite a gentrification HYPE that crime has been going up for the past 4 years. So I think certain boroughs like Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and maybe the west bronx will get gradually worse over the 2010s and people will see it.
They better get started now. So far this year Chicago has the highest raw numbers of murders in the country according to a post on the general U.S. forum.
# Murders, City
301 Chicago
293 New York
253 Detroit
206 Los Angeles
195 Philly
what the hell this is wrong , Chicago and new york do not even have 200 homicides to begin with , and new york has more raw number homicides then Chicago.
where are you getting your sources from?? they are off.
The real question is how dangerous these cities are relative to the previous decade? My guess is many cities will get safer by gentrification, but that suburbs will get more dangerous (especially inner-ring ones). It also depends on what the overall social trends will be but that will likely effect all cities rather similarly.
An example: I think St. Louis will get progressively safer if current trends continue. The city the last decade has had poorer people leave while middle and upper income people move in. (not uncommon among most cities lately) The only places still losing population are largely the high-crime areas that distort the overall data, now what happens to nearby suburbs is another point of interest.
Also demographic data will determine this as well, an aging population will also make crime less likely.
The economy the way it's been the last couple years is making people go crazy, once the economy starts to rise again I think crime will drop.
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