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NYC might finish with a historic low of murders this year. Either way, it will be a pretty low number regardless. Proves the pro-stop and frisk crowd wrong in my opinion.
That's a homicide rate of 30.44, but the interesting thing is that if the numbers were finalized right now according to FBI standards, there would be 16 justifiable homicides, which would equal 184 murders with a murder rate of 28.01...
NYC might finish with a historic low of murders this year. Either way, it will be a pretty low number regardless. Proves the pro-stop and frisk crowd wrong in my opinion.
What the hell did NYC do to be blessed with such low murder rates? This city was literally in the dumps just 40 years ago and now it's nearly considered to be the safest big city in the country with 8 million people to manage. It's impressive. And no, I don't believe gentrification is why because gentrification is happening in many cities yet crime rates remain the same or increasing.
The answer is gentrification. Plain and simple look at Harlem, the difference is NYC is the posterchild for Gentrification and other cities simply aren't, almost every Borough of NYC has had some sort of extensive gentrification over the decades and centuries if you go back far enough. Also if you divide the number of police officers in NYC per square mile you get a ridiculous amount of police per square mile, especially areas like Manhattan which are crawling with police officers. The last thing is how expensive the city is. New York has some of the most violent places in america in its metro area hint hint Newark so while every city don't have an equal ratio of criminals plenty of the criminals in the NYC metro area don't reside in the city itself while that isn't true for many other places. LA is similar in this regard some of the worst neighborhoods are far out burbs or just across the border- Inglewood, Compton.
If Houston was just the inner loop the change is even more dramatic because at that point all of the cities most dangerous areas are outside the inner loop and the dangerous part of the loop, The whole eastside is rapidly gentrifying.
The fact that there's something like 35,000 police officers in NYC makes a huge impact. Cops are everywhere in New York City, in wealthy neighborhoods, working class, impoverished, and everything in between. That makes an tremendous impact overall, and countless problems are prevented before they get started.
Now compare to that to Chicago. Here there is an enormous amount of crime in the viable, desirable, low-to-no homicide areas, because the limited police force is disproportionately situated in some god-awful west and southside neighborhoods, with the exception of strong presence downtown.
That's about 11,900 police officers covering 234 square miles.
The answer is gentrification. Plain and simple look at Harlem, the difference is NYC is the posterchild for Gentrification and other cities simply aren't, almost every Borough of NYC has had some sort of extensive gentrification over the decades and centuries if you go back far enough. Also if you divide the number of police officers in NYC per square mile you get a ridiculous amount of police per square mile, especially areas like Manhattan which are crawling with police officers. The last thing is how expensive the city is. New York has some of the most violent places in america in its metro area hint hint Newark so while every city don't have an equal ratio of criminals plenty of the criminals in the NYC metro area don't reside in the city itself while that isn't true for many other places. LA is similar in this regard some of the worst neighborhoods are far out burbs or just across the border- Inglewood, Compton.
If Houston was just the inner loop the change is even more dramatic because at that point all of the cities most dangerous areas are outside the inner loop and the dangerous part of the loop, The whole eastside is rapidly gentrifying.
The answer is not gentrification. Crime has dropped everywhere in NYC at roughly the same rate, including sections of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens which have barely seen a whiff of gentrification.
St. Louis 170/53.85
Baltimore 283/45.51
Birmingham 87/40.96
New Orleans 154/39.53
Jackson 58/33.98
Memphis 201/30.65
San Bernardino 59/27.30
Chicago 675/24.81
Kansas City 107/22.51
Salinas 35/22.24
Chattanooga 32/18.12
Washington 121/18.01
Tulsa 70/17.35
Louisville 102/16.57
Oakland 68/16.22
Philadelphia 250/15.95
Denver 49/7.18
Los Angeles 267/6.72
Omaha 28/6.31
San Jose 44/4.28
New York 295/3.45
I have a friend that stays out there on the border of San Bernardino and Highland which is the nice part of town. I've gone through the rough parts before. It's crazy to me that a suburb 60+ miles from LA has this much poverty. It was like I was in the heart of the hood in a major city, not a suburb with 200,000 people.
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