How bad was crime in jersey back in the 80s and 90s (Newark: 2013, crime rates)
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I'm from Bed Stuy, and I was wondering how bad crime was back in jersey back in the 1980s and 1990s. I grew up in that era and in my neighborhood it was treacherous no doubt. Were there any neighborhoods in jersey back then comparable to some of the worst neighborhoods in brooklyn like bed stuy?
The reason is because of the introduction of crack I'm guessing. Crack made crime go way up. I bet a lot of the murders happened up in north jersey too.
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I'm from Bed Stuy, and I was wondering how bad crime was back in jersey back in the 1980s and 1990s. I grew up in that era and in my neighborhood it was treacherous no doubt. Were there any neighborhoods in jersey back then comparable to some of the worst neighborhoods in brooklyn like bed stuy?
Not a neighborhood but an entire city that is worse than worst area of Brooklyn and still is horrible.
Well, that's pretty identical to NYC's crime stats. Not really surprising that NYC's problems would spill over into NJ. I'm betting a lot of that crime was concentrated in the NYC-adjacent cities.
Well, that's pretty identical to NYC's crime stats. Not really surprising that NYC's problems would spill over into NJ. I'm betting a lot of that crime was concentrated in the NYC-adjacent cities.
Yep. Remember places like Hoboken and downtown Jersey City were not nice back then. Hoboken was notorious for being pretty bad for a long time.
Hoboken was bad?? I would've never guessed that. And growing up I heard about camden kind of but not really. I heard way more about Newark and Jersey city growing up but that's because they're part of the NYC Metro and camden isn't.
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