NYC Is Less Homicidal Than You’d Think

10/06/2023

It’s not at all widely understood in the rest of the country how low the crime rate in New York City has been driven since the five consecutive elections from 1993-2009 in which the Democratic nominee for mayor was defeated by the law and order candidates Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg. Looking at CDC homicide victimization data for 2020-2022, it’s striking how low the rate of blacks being killed is in New York City, even during the racial reckoning, compared to much of the country.

County	County Seat	State	Black Homicide Victim Rate
Queens	Queens	NY	11
Kings	Brooklyn	NY	15
New York	Manhatten	NY	18
Bronx	Bronx	NY	20
Suffolk	Boston	MA	21
Richmond	Staten Island	NY	24
Coahoma (Crossroads of 49&61)	Clarksdale	MS	25
Baltimore County	Baltimore suburbs	MD	29
Dallas	Dallas	TX	29
Los Angeles	L.A.	CA	31
Harris	Houston	TX	34
Miami-Dade	Miami	FL	35
Duval	Jacksonville	FL	38
Fulton	Atlanta	GA	38
Davidson	Nashville	TN	40
Alameda	Oakland	CA	45
Wayne	Detroit	MI	50
East Baton Rouge	Baton Rouge	LA	57
Shelby	Memphis	TN	57
D.C.	D.C.	DC	61
Marion	Indianapolis	IN	63
Cook	Chicago	IL	66
Multnomah	Portland	OR	66
Philadelphia	Philadelphia	PA	67
Baltimore	Baltimore City	MD	72
Jefferson	Louisville	KY	76
Orleans	New Orleans	LA	83

In four of the five boroughs of New York City, African-Americans die less often by homicide in this decade than even in Boston. The overall black homicide rate in NYC, 16, is less than one-fourth of the black homicide rate in Cook County, IL, 66. The black homicide victimization rate of 20 in the Bronx is particularly impressive

It’s perfectly reasonable to think of New York as a nice place to visit but you wouldn’t want to live there. But it’s ignorant to ignore the enormous progress that New York has made in imposing law and order over the last three decades just because you wouldn’t want to live there.

[Comment at Unz.com]

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