Uh there was massive crime organized and otherwise during “the Great Depression.”
In fact the homicide rate peaked at 9.1 per 100,000 between 1931-35.
Thanks. My grandfather witnessed “the bad old days” first hand. Amazing to many on this site, but there was more open prostitution and illegal gambling back in the 1930s than there is today, and not just in Jersey City (where Nonno grew up).
If crime is caused by poverty, how does one explain the strange case of Michael Pickens? Cornwall, Connecticut police arrested Michael Pickens, son of billionaire T. Boone Pickens, for burglary after finding him hiding inside a fishing store and a cache of store items outside the shop. People are poorer in New Dehli than New York and were poorer during the Great Depression than during the 1970s. The crime rate is higher in New York than New Dehli and the crime rate was higher during the 1970s than during the Great Depression. Poverty is not the cause of crime, though crime can be the cause of poverty.
Your thoughts?
violent crime bumped a bit in the 30s.
what I found more unusual was how violent crime quadrupled and then some right after 1900?
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immigrant ghettoes?
like the Lower East Side...just guessing.
note high murder rate in 70s yet 80s is touted as crack nurder rate when in fact it went down
cool stats