NYC had 328 slaying victims in 2014,its lowly figure ever . For those who exist or visit it ’s hard to believe that this was one of the populace ’s most crimson cities . 1990 was the summit of a spiral of offence that started in the 1960s and explode in the 1980s . Listen to some of the people who live it all in Austin Peters ’ NYC , 1981 .
[ Inspired by the filmA Most Violent Year ] the documentaryNYC , 1981features Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa , operation creative person and former Warhol Factory repair Penny Arcade , actress Johnnie Mae , Harlem street - style legend Dapper Dan , auto body shop owner Nick Rosello , and trucking union rep Wayne Walsh .
If you look at New York City ’s homicide statistic since 1928 ( the first recorded year ) , 1981 was n’t the most wild class in the history of the capital of the have it away macrocosm . At 1,826 victims , it was n’t even the most vehement in the 80s . That position corresponds to 1989 , with 1,905 murder victim . Both figures were richly surpassed in 1990 , with 2,245 victim — the all - prison term record .
But 1981 was the class when everyone realized that the urban center was completely out of control , as murders , assault , ravishment , mafia , and law corruption levels soared in a perfect storm that promote New York into a mordant hole of physical end , and moral and economical failure . As Curtis Sliwa pronounce in this film , it is not a coincidence that the cult motion-picture show Escape from New York — in which Kurt Russell strain to get the President of the United States out of a city that the government turn into a prison house because it was already a hellhole that nobody want to live in — was free in 1981 .
If you want to know more about this menstruum , go to the unforesightful movie ’s site .
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