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> In 1992, [East Palo Alto] had the country's highest per-capita murder rate, with 42 murders for 25,000 residents. In 2023, the city had no murders, the first
by porphyra 2y ago
> In 1992, [East Palo Alto] had the country's highest per-capita murder rate, with 42 murders for 25,000 residents. In 2023, the city had no murders, the first time in its history. --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Palo_Alto,_California https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Palo_Alto,_California
Pretty cool! I guess the Ikea also contributed to the improvement.
- Animats 2y agoHere are East Palo Alto's census stats.[1][2] Percentage of black people: * 1980 - 68% * 1990 - 43% * 2000 - 23% * 2010 - 17% * 2023 - 13% [1] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/eastpaloaltocitycalifornia/PST045223 https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/eastpaloaltocit... [2] http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/EastPaloAlto70.htm http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/EastPaloAlto70.htm
- epolanski 2y agoIs there any implication here? Because murder rate has fallen in magnitude of orders faster than that.
- mlyle 2y agoIt's not saying that black people cause murders, I don't think. It's an illustration of massive demographic replacement and gentrification: disadvantaged people are being pushed out. It's gone from being a poor minority community to a community with few minorities, and those that remain are of a higher economic class. In turn, you don't have large groups of disadvantaged people milling together; you have a larger tax base for social programs and policing; etc. So it's also nonlinear.