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500k is a little too hard to believe, I'm not saying that your wrong but that seems a bit excessive and I doubt they would let things get that bad in the nation's capital.
A lot of cities had many extremes, NYC is a perfect example. I believe NYC's murder rate in 1990 as a whole was around 30 per 100k but it still had multiple neighborhoods above 100 per 100k.
Boreat is right. DC had almost 500 homicides in the early 90s. Just look on this site and it says so. It was terrible. In the early 2000s it took a complete turn and now isn't even close to being one of the most dangerous cities.
average yearly robbery rates for a few cities from 1990-1994:
Chicago - 1,344.3
New York City - 1,221.2
New Orleans - 1,099.2
Oakland - 1,065.4
Los Angeles - 1,048.8
San Francisco - 1,013.6
Cleveland - 893.0
Long Beach - 863.1
Philadelphia - 792.3
Houston - 694.9
Right crime rates are hard to compare bc a small town will have a higher crime rate than a bigger town .....I look at murder rates crime happens everywhere but murder is the ultimate dagger.....With that being sd history shows the highest rate were in D.C, New Orleans, and Detroit
Gary and Newark were both among the worst, both have improved since. Detroit, New Orleans, Cleveland, Camden were and still are. The largest cities were much worse, NYC, Chicago, LA. Washington DC and Baltimore were much worse.
One thing about the 90s was that the real crack epidemic was still going on and gang activity was at an all time high, especially in the early to mid 90s.
Little known fact:
East Palo Alto was the murder capital of the United States in 1992.
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