1981 Houston was the murder capital of the United States

Wow. I'm stuck in the 90's when the US routinely had 1000-count homicide cities. NYC was well over 2000 some years. Last year, Chicago out-numbered NYC and LA combined, but that same total was out-done by Houston in the 90's.. and Houston was barely top 5, back then.

I'm surprised (and delighted) US murder-rates have significantly decreased.


I'm not surprised (but delighted) the usual tricks made their appearance to go "anti-stunna".

 

"Luv ya blue!"

Unfortunately, a lot of lowlifes (violent, bad hombres) took that to mean "love to kill and watch victim(s) turn blue".

#alternatefacts

 

US. Murder #s and Murder Rates for the 30 largest cities. 2015 is correct #'s, 2016 is projected totals as of mid-year 2016.

The national murder rate was expected to see a 31% increase overall in 2016 over 2015. The U.S. saw 2 decades of decrease in homicides until 2015

 

the Homocide rate was at an all-time high in 1980

 

Police Chief Lee Brown and Kathy Whitmire started cleaning things up around that time from what I recall.

 

Had never seen that before. Must have been a magical time.

 

didn't houston reach its murdering peak in the mid 90's though, when hakeem murdered robinson in the playoffs?

 

Sharpstown and Alief were upper Middle Class neighborhoods. I grew up in the Sharpstown Area in the late 70s-early 80s (Went to Sharpstown Middle School). Those are were mostly White Middle Class. I moved to Alief in the late 80s/early 90s.....went to Elsik. Again, mostly white school. What happened was a building boom of Apartment complexes that forced cheaper rent. You had lower income folks, white, black, hispanic, asian....flood those areas. The crack wars followed and it was downhill. The late 70s, early 80s in Sharpstown was GREAT for everyone (Im black).

 

The whole Gulfton Area was ok until the late 80s.

 

I grew up around Sharpstown right around the time when white flight started ramping up (late 80s). You could see the neighborhoods changing overnight. It wasn't just the growth of apartments. My neighborhood was largely insulated from that. In general, you saw the same trends that affected neighborhoods in other parts of the city. White families left and moved to newer suburbs. Honestly, my family left because the schools were slowly declining in quality. Texas's formerly strong school quality was going backwards by the late 80s and early 90s as the tax base started shifting to suburbs. And the lack of state income tax meant that schools were heavily dependent on the local tax base so as people left Houston for the suburbs, the schools really started to struggle.

Schooling was largely why my family left when it did (early 90s) but crime was definitely on the rise at the time as well. You could also see it in the businesses that were failing. Grocery stores in particular were failing over and over in the area. My neighborhood lost multiple grocery stores and with that, people actually lost convenient access to food. Local restaurants were also closing down at the same time. Sharpstown Mall was in free fall around that time as well (as well as the Westwood mall which doesn't even exist anymore). It's rather sad as those neighborhoods are actually geographically well positioned and were a nice place for middle class families. But this happened across the US after desegregation.

 

that's just sunday morning in my country, bros.


it's never a good sign when they use your city to represent detroit in movies!

 

The same thing happened to Greenspoint. That was a high end shopping area in the 80s. Then Imperial Valley became cheap apartment central (10s of thousands of units), and within just a few years it became "Gunspoint".

 

Salvadoran?

Nice Robocop 2 reference. What a disappointing crapfest that was.

 

Ok, never travel to Brazil. Got it.

 

That's why suburbs SEVERELY restrict in multiple family dwellings. They also resist putting public transportation in their areas.

 

1000 people a day moving into Houston back then

 

Car theft #1 in California, Lol. All about the cars.

And what's going on in St. Louis....

Rape #1 in Alaska, why?