Gesamtzahl der Morde gegen Gesamtbevölkerung in New York City von 1960 bis 2016 [OC]
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Gesamtzahl der Morde gegen Gesamtbevölkerung in New York City von 1960 bis 2016 [OC]
Von Fluid-Decision6262
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I thought the 1970’s would have the peak rate.
Now show my home city of Detroit. I dare you. I’ll win this competition of who has more.
What has led to the decrease?
I never realized how stable the population is.
Source: [Number of Homicides in NYC by Year ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_New_York_City#Murders_by_year)
The homicide numbers in NYC have fluctuated massively over the years. There was gradual increase throughout the 1960s before it began skyrocketing during the 1970s and 1980s (the two decades that are often seen as the „darkest times“ in the city’s history) before it hit a peak in 1990 with 2245 homicides. However, this number has gradually declined since its peak in the early 1990s with 2016 having only 330 homicides, which is lower than any other point in this graph’s timeline.
With a homicide rate of 4.1 per 100k in 2024, NYC now statistically being one of the safest cities in the United States.
I know this isn’t what the graph actually says, but at a glance it does look like, for a while, everyone was murdered in New York. Plus a few extra.
Trump would have you believe that it’s worse now than any time in history.
This makes it look like at its peak there were more murders than people. Lol
Wow, in ’90 to ’92, there were more homicides than people in NYC, that’s crazy 🤯
Would be cool to have a plot of the price of the median home v murder date in present value dollars.
The „years of lead“ was a period in the 70s and 80s where people with brain damage from exposure to leaded petrol fumes caused huge spikes in violent crime. This worldwide trend largely explains various terrorist campaigns, organised crime and spikes in murder rate during that period, including the IRA, ETA, RAF, etc. Once the generation of terrorists with brain damage got older, the next generation didnt continue the violence and realised it was actually very fucked up.