In 1993, when I graduated High School, there were almost 2,500 murders per year.
The murder rate is now lower than 5oo per year. I didn't look up actual stats but I think that is pretty close. I heard Ray Kelly and Bloomy repeat these figures at every press conference.
Bill Bratton and Rudy Guiliani sort of engineered the crime reduction, starting in 1994.
what were the cause of all of those murders?
was it from drug crews fighting or just stick-up kids killing the victim
In 1977, when I graduated high school, it was probably just from general urban decay. But by 1993, the crack epidemic was in full bloom. That drug did more damage to the Bronx in a decade than every other drug combined in the previous fifty years. Couple that with a mayor who was easy on crime, and by the early '90s this place was becoming a cesspool.
All in the past, though. Safest big city in the world today. Steep price, though. Half the people who grew up here can't afford to live here
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