In a city of 8.6 million people, in a country flooded with guns, this is pretty incredible. New York is getting something very, very right.https://twitter.com/patrick_sharkey/status/1052542751911407616 …
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Replying to @Noahpinion
this is a naive, insensitive, ill-informed, probably stupid question but... any chance NYC gentrification is just forcing crime-prone communities outside of city limits?
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Replying to @kphextwin
Well, what's another community that could be getting the overflow?
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Replying to @SaveMeeJeebus @kphextwin
Newark's murder rate has gone down by about 40% since 1990. Not as good as NYC, but almost nowhere is.pic.twitter.com/IPXBUhVb3z
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Replying to @Noahpinion @kphextwin
Looks like "40% down since 1990" may be technically true, but that chart seems to tell the story that it's just the low point in a recurring 10 year cycle of violence. Either way doesn't really support the idea that nearby communities are absorbing NYC's violent inhabitants
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Yep. Note that murder in Newark fell at the same time as NYC's big drop in the 90s, then rose again, then fell again.
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