How did New York City actually manage to pull out of its 1970's death spiral? It seems like many people were predicting in the 70's that the city was doomed, or would be condemned to long-term decline. When and how did that perception shift?
>>18523547NYC was always a dangerous shitheap except for 15 years in the 90s-00s.
>>18523547they took lead out of gasoline
They invented the prison industry to lock up the fuckos.Basically an enormous expansion of new holding facilities and the system at large which coincided with that problem.
>>18523582>>18523582NYC historical murder ratesYear: Murders (rate per 100K)---MAYOR ROBERT F. WAGNER---1960: 482 (6.19)1961: 483 (6.21)1962: 631 (8.11)1963: 548 (7.04)1964: 636 (8.17)1965: 634 (8.15)---MAYOR JOHN V. LINDSAY---1966: 654 (8.40)1967: 746 (9.59)1968: 986 (12.67)1969: 1,043 (13.40)1970: 1,117 (14.15) 1971: 1,466 (18.76)1972: 1,691 (21.88)1973: 1,680 (21.97)---MAYOR ABRAHAM D. BEAME---1974: 1,554 (20.54)1975: 1,645 (21.98)1976: 1,622 (21.92)1977: 1,557 (21.27)---MAYOR EDWARD I. KOCH---1978: 1,504 (20.78)1979: 1,733 (24.22)1980: 1,814 (25.65)1981: 1,826 (25.73)1982: 1,668 (23.42)1983: 1,622 (22.69)1984: 1,450 (20.22)1985: 1,384 (19.23)1986: 1,582 (21.91)1987: 1,672 (23.07)1988: 1,896 (26.07)1989: 1,905 (26.11)---MAYOR DAVID N. DINKINS---1990: 2,245 (30.66)1991: 2,154 (29.16)1992: 1,995 (26.76)1993: 1,946 (25.87)---MAYOR RUDOLPH W. GIULIANI---1994: 1,561 (20.57)1995: 1,177 (15.37)1996: 983 (12.72)1997: 770 (9.88)1998: 633 (8.05)1999: 671 (8.45)2000: 673 (8.40)2001: 3,402 (42.49)
>>18524046>2001kek but not useful as a statistic
>>18524046What the fuck did Lindsay do to the city?
>>18524066Mayors alone rarely do anything, NYC just got fucked like everywhere else in the USA by declining industrialization and the subsequent tsunami of layoffs, less money in local economies, etc...
>>18523547https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_DsUDAAAAMBAJ/mode/2upahh gun
>>18524066Nothing he really did, the state stopped using capital punishment so there was less deterrence for crime. New York used to do assembly-line executions.
Giuliani turned things around
>>18523547Donald J Trump received a small loan of a million dollars and the rest is history
