Very dangerous time to be at “Hudson University.”
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Almost as dangerous as Cabot Cove.
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I went to public school in 80's NYC- it was typical for kids to talk about their parents being mugged. My cousin's neighborhood in Alphabet City was a warzone
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Whatever sins he may have committed after leaving Gracie Mansion, Rudy made NYC a fun and safe place to visit and live.
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Why do people think Giuliani got elected mayor???
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The remarkable thing is how little empirical evidence there is that shows that draconian crime bills actually had an effect. New paper argues that cell phones had bigger effect. https://www.nber.org/papers/w25883
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I don’t know what caused the decline either (and by even 1996 it was dramatically different) but most people did not own a cell phone until the mid to late 90s.
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And yet conservatives outside NYC love to claim NYC is a criminal cesspool
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I'm reading "Bonfire of the Vanities" right now and have to keep resisting the urge to roll my eyes at the descriptions of the atmosphere of crime. It was a different time!
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Believe me, nothing in that book is fiction.
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