How come new york was a crime ridden hellhole in the 70s, screaming yuppie chinatown joint in the 80s and a pristine city of the future in the 90s?

>>213446843 (OP)
the mayor implemented a zero tolerance approach to policing crime

>>213446843 (OP)
Because anglos suck at running a city, then the chinese came in and turned that turd of a town into a pearl, and from then on international capitalists took over and gentrified the fuck out of it

yes unironically it was the work of rudy guiliani

it was all of those things in real life except for the last one

>>213446843 (OP)
Rudy Giuliani had the brilliant idea of prosecuting violent crime instead of supporting it

Get this, they arrested the criminals
Crazy stuff, I know

>>213446905
utter nonsense ching chong, the transition from the high crime of the 70s to the low crime of the 90s was a direct result of giuliani's zero tolerance to crime policies, this is well documented and cited in case studies the world over

>>213446843 (OP)
>new york was a crime ridden hellhole in the 70s
bankers didn't yet think up fake money yet for people to rebuild all the abandoned slums where the youths hungout

>>213447035
What the fuck am I looking at.

>>213446843 (OP)
it wasnt
new york was always a shithole that smelled like piss since it was bought for a handful of glass beads
and before that before some /pol/ retard posts stock footage from the1950s and pretends it wasnt known for being an overcrowded smelly morally bankrupt shithole since the 1700s

>>213447071
the slums were being burnt down for insurance claims/money owed to the city

>>213447131
In Mad Men they showed the tap water coming out looking like tea.

>>213447046
>transition from the high crime of the 70s to the low crime of the 90s was a direct result of giuliani's zero tolerance to crime policies,
BS..... Crime has dropped across the board everywhere, every decade, since the 1960s. We have never lived in a safer time in modern history. Most of this driven by modern tech and better economics.
Giuliani could have done nothing but jerk off in his office every day and crime would have still dropped. Being the 1990s had one of the largest drops in crime ever and it was everywhere. He basically failed upwards.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-data-says-about-crime-in-the-us/

>>213447182
>JEWISH LIGHTNING

>>213446843 (OP)
leaded gas being phased out

>>213447099
your taxes at work

>>213446843 (OP)
giuliani uncorked the NYPD in the 80s and let them crack skulls

>>213447099
this boy lookin mighty peculiar

>>213446843 (OP)
>pristine city of the future in the 90s