A person is more likely to be murdered in West Virginia than New York City. We would not all be safe from the threat of dying in a freak homicidal incident, if only the progressive movement did not exist
— Eric Levitz (@EricLevitz) October 4, 2023
After the Giuliani-Bloomberg-Bratton law and order revolution, New York City has an unusually low homicide death rate for a big city: 5.5 per 100k residents in 2020-2022.
Ornery, rootin-tootin’ West Virginia has an unusually high homicide death rate for a rural mostly white state: 6.2.
According to CDC cause-of-death data, the homicide death rate for non-Hispanic white residents in New York City (1.3) in 2020-2022 is only 1.3 per 100k.
That’s 1/4th as high as the homicide victimization rate for nH whites in West Virginia (5.4).
NYC, post-Giuliani-Bloomberg-Bratton, isn’t too bad although, it’s scarier than it was in the hipster 2010s.
Still, to thrive, NYC needs a very low crime rate because the point of living in NYC is to not need an F-150 to get around. A typical West Virginian who commutes to work, to church, and to his kids’ sports practice in a pickup truck and who avoids hanging out with meth heads and the like, has a very, very low chance of being murdered by some random lunatic who hates white people.
NYC is a good place to live if you can walk the streets or take the subway at all hours without fear. That requires very strong law and order.
Low as it is relative to the rest of the U.S., New York City’s homicide death rate in 2020-2022 of 5.5 is up 49% over its homicide victimization rate of only 3.7 in 2018-19 during the halcyon 2010s.
