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[rayiner]

Look at the chart at the end of Item 5. It shows the homicide rate climbing to 7.8 per 100,000, which is well above the level in 2000.

[ceejayoz → rayiner]

2000 is at 6, 2001 spikes to 7ish, and not many people consider either year "the 90s".

The worst of 2020's disruptions doesn't come close to historical highs, even in the 90s, and it's already fading.

[rayiner → ceejayoz]

2020 was at 7.8. As you note 2000 is as at 6 (2001 was 9/11 so that doesn’t really count for our purposes here). So that means 2020 was back at levels last seem before 2000, which is what I said. Specifically, it’s around the level in 1996, which was 7.4: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

The FBI’s 2021 statistics show a further increase from 2020. For 2022, New York City is down a bit from 2021, but you’re still talking about wiping out a decade of progress in lowering homicide rates: https://www.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_p...