Lets keep it real, early 90s east coast is the most dangerous place in America history

[YaBoy]

I'd have to say the Jim Crow era south was more dangerous than NY in the 90s. At least for blacks

 

[Billy Hoyle]

you right, but drugs are still illegal, so why is the violence only a fraction of what it was just 20 years ago

Probably because it became taboo for people to use crack. Back then normal people were doing it then became addicted. Now you're looked at like a pariah if you even try it.

Once the demand died, the gangs lost their power so less kids wanted to join.

There's also the Abortion Theory:

Spoiler

Abortion became legal in 1973 and a huge dropoff in crime happened 16-17 years later. The theory is that these children, who previously would have been abandoned, abused, or neglected at best, were never born.

So there was a huge dropoff in children born into an environment that typically breeds criminal activity. The effects of this dropoff started showing up 17 years later and it's stayed down ever since.

http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/DonohueLevittTheImpactOfLegalized2001.pdf

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

try Westcoast 1800s and early 1900s midwest

Exactly, the gold rush murder rates were off the charts, same thing with Murder Inc and them in the 1920s

you right, but drugs are still illegal, so why is the violence only a fraction of what it was just 20 years ago

The market is oversaturated. Drugs are too easy to get now and prescription drugs make it even easier to get high than ever before.

Probably because it became taboo for people to use crack. Back then normal people were doing it then became addicted. Now you're looked at like a pariah if you even try it.

Once the demand died, the gangs lost their power so less kids wanted to join.

There's also the Abortion Theory:

Spoiler

Abortion became legal in 1973 and a huge dropoff in crime happened 16-17 years later. The theory is that these children, who previously would have been abandoned, abused, or neglected at best, were never born.

So there was a huge dropoff in children born into an environment that typically breeds criminal activity. The effects of this dropoff started showing up 17 years later and it's stayed down ever since.

http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/DonohueLevittTheImpactOfLegalized2001.pdf

Meh, that theory's been called into question considering that crime started going down all over the 1st world at the same time it did in America.

 

[Remy Danton]

 

[Remy Danton]

try Westcoast 1800s and early 1900s midwest

let it be known breh

 

[Knicksman20]

No its not the south, no its not 90s Cali, no its not modern day midwest

East coast at its peak was on the same level as places like Mexico, srs

I would even say the 80's when crack started to hit our neighborhoods. It was real bad & if you were walking in the wrong hood, you would at the least be getting robbed.

 

[151_Pr00f]

I recently read an article that stated the homicide rate really doesn't reflect a decrease in violence but rather the medical advances in response to trauma from aggravated assault. Interesting read since overall the lure of crack cocaine is long past it's heyday as well as the turf wars that sprung from the trade.

 

[concise]

I recently read an article that stated the homicide rate really doesn't reflect a decrease in violence but rather the medical advances in response to trauma from aggravated assault. Interesting read since overall the lure of crack cocaine is long past it's heyday as well as the turf wars that sprung from the trade.

That would make sense if not for the fact that gun crime is down overall, period.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Right b4 i kill a nikka, i name where he is standin at his own city so the murder rate would be a perfect 100

 

[IAmGettingAMailOrderBride]

1920 chicago
1980s western phillidelphia

 

[CELL]

Let's fight about who had the higher murder rate as some sort of, "brag" brehs

 

[Couth]

Who cares? Whole country was a free for all in the 80s/90s.

 

[Drones]

What difference does it make who had the highest murder rate, what is that to brag about? This is a stupid ass thread.

 

[_Anghellic_]

The crack era was real as fukk. Some of the old stories that rap nikkas from that era tell is on some Back then nikkas who was talking that street shyt on their songs had to be really living it, if they wasn't they ass got checked, like 2Chainz got repeatedly hoed out by those Bay nikkas. It wasn't no performing in big arenas with a shyt load of security, it was in some old club or music venue.

 

[BrothaZay]

1920 chicago
1980s western phillidelphia

1920s chicago wasnt getting 2000 murders a year breh, not even 300 a year