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Like Gary, Harvey was once a manufacturing hub. It was also home to one of the earliest malls that provided a lot of jobs. Years of corruption, mismanagement of finances- especially in the last 16 years with the soon-to-be- leaving mayor. Not to mention, gang infiltration(as early as the late 1960s), rapid white flight, and then the crack epidemic in the late 80s and 90s determined the fate of the city.
However, what's crazy about most of the recent murders and shootings is that I'm not sure if they are even drug-related or gang retaliations. I follow a Facebook group concerning Harvey and from what I'm hearing there have been a surge of shootings in the last 3 months and some of these cases are involving people (unclear its by gang members) randomly shooting up houses and picking off people to shoot- many don't make it to the news. Last year there was an incident about an arson involving a family whose home was burned by someone throwing a molotov cocktail. Fortunately no one was harmed or killed, but over a dozen people were replaced by the fire. The most recent murder of the 10 year old boy sounds like someone looking to shoot someone. The boy was just visiting family from another town 60 miles away.
This is after 40 police and firefighters were laid off. The community has become too impoverished to sustain fully staffed police department.
Thanks, I looked up Harvey on Wikipedia but this kind of information is hard to find. Seems it's sliding down the same slope as Flint and East St. Louis have.
Buffalo is currently at 6 - 2.32 per 100k as of 3/30/19.
Nope, it's at 8. I have the link on there. The Buffalo PD website (https://www.bpdny.org) links to that exact site that I link to for their crime stats. Their police department puts all their data on CrimeReports.
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