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What is it that New York does that other cities do not?.
NYC has areas that are very bad in crime. It's just so large (8.5 million people) that there are enough safe areas to bring the averages down. Places like East New York, Brooklyn are still quite dangerous.
NYC has areas that are very bad in crime. It's just so large (8.5 million people) that there are enough safe areas to bring the averages down. Places like East New York, Brooklyn are still quite dangerous.
Yes and no. NYC is a very big city, but crime has dramatically dropped in nearly the entire city, it is not just confined to the rich areas of Manhattan.
Atlanta is at 17 murders. Murders are down 26% YTD so far from last year and actually the lowest it's been at this point in time since 2009(maybe even the last 25 years, but I can't see murder rates prior to 2009). Praying that we don't have a random surge of murders for the rest of the year. Would be nice to not go above 75 for the year. That would be a good year for Atlanta all things considered.
As Atlanta gets safers, the suburbs get more dangerous.
Yes and yes. It's not just East New York. There are numerous areas that are really no better off than they were 30 years ago.
A few not numerous... comparing NYC 1980/90 to 2016/17, almost every neighborhood has seen an improvement, look up the statistics. I do not think NYC's success in fighting and lowering crime should be downplayed like you are trying to do.
Wilmington 14/19.46
New Orleans 53/13.60
Baltimore 81/13.03
St. Louis 37/11.72
Salinas 15/9.53
Memphis 52/7.93
Detroit 43/6.35
Buffalo 16/6.20
Kansas City 28/5.89
Philadelphia 80/5.10
Toledo 14/5.00
Tulsa 20/4.96
Washington 31/4.61
Oakland 17/4.05
Atlanta 17/3.66
Jacksonville 31/3.57
Columbus 28/3.29
Charlotte 25/3.02
Oklahoma City 17/2.69
San Francisco 15/1.73
Los Angeles 62/1.56
New York 57/0.67
San Jose 6/0.58
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Originally Posted by MetroZetro
Here with your Tuesday update (+rates) as usual.
Wilmington 14/19.46
New Orleans 53/13.60
Baltimore 81/13.03
St. Louis 37/11.72
Salinas 15/9.53
Memphis 52/7.93
Detroit 43/6.35
Buffalo 16/6.20
Kansas City 28/5.89
Philadelphia 80/5.10
Toledo 14/5.00
Tulsa 20/4.96
Washington 31/4.61
Oakland 17/4.05
Atlanta 17/3.66
Jacksonville 31/3.57
Columbus 28/3.29
Charlotte 25/3.02
Oklahoma City 17/2.69
San Francisco 15/1.73
Los Angeles 62/1.56
New York 57/0.67
San Jose 6/0.58
What does the actual rate mean though? Does that mean there's currently 19.46 murders for every 100,000 in Wilmington, for example?
NYC has areas that are very bad in crime. It's just so large (8.5 million people) that there are enough safe areas to bring the averages down. Places like East New York, Brooklyn are still quite dangerous.
... well, how then some 300k cities have more murder than the 8.5 million people...? Those bad area must have at worse 10 murders....
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