When I as a boy growing up in Queens, there were about 50 homicides a year in NYC. When I left for good during Dinkins Terror, there were about 1000 a year, literally. I believe the rate approached 2000 per year. Nowadays it’s leveled off at 500 per year and people think that that’s the new normal.
I miss the country I grew up in.
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.