> 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
Pretty cool! I guess the Ikea also contributed to the improvement.
It'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.
Pretty cool! I guess the Ikea also contributed to the improvement.