Here are the numbers for 2014:
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The NYPD recorded 328 homicides across the five boroughs in 2014, according to unofficial numbers tallied by the Daily News. The murder count for 2013 totaled 335.
Brooklyn had the most murders in 2014 with 119, followed by the Bronx with 95, Queens with 63, Manhattan with 36 and Staten Island with 15.
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328 murders. 8 million+ residents (not to mention the millions more commuters, tourists, etc.). Lowest figure since 1963.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...icle-1.2062914
And where are you getting your figures for 2015? Per Compstat, there have been 39 murders in the Bronx through the end of June.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloa...en-us-pbbx.pdf
And I've driven through both the Bronx (lived in Harlem for a summer) and Charleston's seedier areas more than once. Honestly, even Detroit or the lousy parts of Chicago aren't a huge deal to drive through at night, even for a white dude like me. I wouldn't want to walk around any of those areas because I'm not a fool.
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