At first it seemed more defensible if one considered the West to only consist of the US, but even this is completely inaccurate given that crime rates in US cities have plummeted to historic lows in the last 3 years.
”According to Asher’s analysis, Detroit, San Francisco, Chicago, Newark, and a handful of other big cities recorded their lowest murder rates since the 1950s and ’60s. “Our cities are as safe as they’ve ever been in the history of the country,” Patrick Sharkey, a sociologist at Princeton who studies urban violence, told me.”
At first it seemed more defensible if one considered the West to only consist of the US, but even this is completely inaccurate given that crime rates in US cities have plummeted to historic lows in the last 3 years.
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”According to Asher’s analysis, Detroit, San Francisco, Chicago, Newark, and a handful of other big cities recorded their lowest murder rates since the 1950s and ’60s. “Our cities are as safe as they’ve ever been in the history of the country,” Patrick Sharkey, a sociologist at Princeton who studies urban violence, told me.”