[NativeNewYorker]

At the top of the murder market under Dinkins, NYC **averaged** a murder every four hours for a full year. My home town is a veritable Eden of peace and love these days.

[Alberta's Child]

Good point, but these murder statistics can be very misleading. I believe the decline in murder rates in New York City over the last 20-25 years isn't primarily attributable to the fact that the city is safer. I think it's mainly a function of dramatic improvements in trauma care over that period of time. I think you'll find similar declines in auto accident fatality rates in New York City, and I know for sure that New Yorkers ain't driving any better today than they were back in the 1980s.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

In my new hometown no one even remembers the last time there was a murder. There was one in the next town over in 1981, a guy was having an affair with a woman in the same church choir. When she told him she had decided to stay with her husband, the lover killed the husband while he was jogging. I like it here.