>>512056532
>Looks like a scene out of fuckin Robocop or someshit lol, how bad were things in the 80's?
The late 70s and the 1980s were the beginning of the Rust Belt. Major cities were rough places in those days due to the loss of manufacturing jobs. Places like New York and Chicago, which had more than just manufacturing, weathered the storm with some lasting damage. Places like Buffalo, NY and even Pittsburgh never really recovered.
By the late 90s, the major cities were quite livable again, due to policies like broken windows policing, the tough love attitude to dealing with criminals, mass incarceration of repeat offenders, and anti-homeless policies. Giuliani is often credited with making NYC livable again in the 90s.
The good times for the major cities lasted until some time in the 2010s, when strong policing was pulled back (after Trayvon Martin and similar cases). Now they are shitholes again.
In the early 90s, NYC had around 2000 murders per year, and Chicago about 1000 murders per year. The homicide numbers are steadily climbing but still (officially) haven't reached early 90s levels yet.
Also, the cities were much better segregated in the 80s and 90s, so only certain areas were no go zones. Now, with efforts to get blacks out of the ghettoes, the crime is spreading beyond the slums.