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UncleTrvlingJim said

It's the same reason people think crime is out of control everywhere, when it is lower than it has been a long time and continuing to decline. It's tied to the media you consume. Fear sells, so that's what you get pushed.

The murder rate in NYC is lower than in places like Jacksonville (Jacksonville also has a higher crime rate than Chicago)... but NYC and Chicago get used as examples of "out of control" murder. It's an easy story to sell and believe.

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I moved to NYC in the height of the crack 'epidemic'
lots of my performances/rehearsals were in Alphabet City/Lower East side (supposedly a bad part of the city)
my GF lived on 43rd & 10th which meant lots of walking through Times Square (before it got Disneyfied) and it was ROUGH
and while there was certainly a decent amount of property crime (mostly stereos from cars), as long as I was not trying to rob someone during a crack buy, I was never in 'random' danger
I was certainly told I was and felt I was
but I wasn't