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When folks say "urban hellscape" they're referring to the steep decline experienced by a lot of blue cities in the wake of George Floyd.
But it's not that steep. Crime rates across the country - and in most major cities - are still substantially below where they were even a decade or two ago ago. For example, last year NYC had 386 murders. Not only is that vastly lower than the 2,000 plus murders per year we saw in the 1990's peak, it's also significantly lower than back during the second Bush Administration (when the annual murder total never dipped below 496). Yes, crime fell even further during the late 2010's, and plummeted during the pandemic - but NYC, like the other major American cities, is not an "urban hellscape."
