1980 -- highest murder rate in LA history
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1980 -- highest murder rate in LA history
According to statistics, 1980 had the highest homicide rate in LA history, with 32.4 murders per 100,000 people. Compared to now, which is just over 6 murders per 100,000 people. Imagine 5 times the murders happening today...
What social dynamics were going on at the time that made that time period in LA so violent? Because to my knowledge, crack didn't hit LA until a few years later.
And gang warfare to my knowledge didn't really hit its peak until the late 80's to early 90's.
What social dynamics were going on at the time that made that time period in LA so violent? Because to my knowledge, crack didn't hit LA until a few years later.
And gang warfare to my knowledge didn't really hit its peak until the late 80's to early 90's.
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Re: 1980 -- highest murder rate in LA history
TheAngels wrote:According to statistics, 1980 had the highest homicide rate in LA history, with 32.4 murders per 100,000 people. Compared to now, which is just over 6 murders per 100,000 people. Imagine 5 times the murders happening today...
What social dynamics were going on at the time that made that time period in LA so violent? Because to my knowledge, crack didn't hit LA until a few years later.
And gang warfare to my knowledge didn't really hit its peak until the late 80's to early 90's.
TheAngels wrote:According to statistics, 1980 had the highest homicide rate in LA history, with 32.4 murders per 100,000 people. Compared to now, which is just over 6 murders per 100,000 people. Imagine 5 times the murders happening today...
What social dynamics were going on at the time that made that time period in LA so violent? Because to my knowledge, crack didn't hit LA until a few years later.
And gang warfare to my knowledge didn't really hit its peak until the late 80's to early 90's.
1980 and 1993 are the years with the most murders in LA
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Re: 1980 -- highest murder rate in LA history
i totaly agree i was in compton during those era came back later it wasnt the same and will never be like in the 80's and 90's ..cant really say why like u said crac wasnt that hard but street was already hot my theori is ...it has to do with generations my theori is for one generation of hard ridaz u have a generation of poser pretty boy comin after than after pretty boy gettin smatch u have their lil homies that are lookin like their big homies than u have another generation of rider and here is goes 1 generation ride next generation collect the cash and pose and decline than next one wake up and ride and here it goes generations mentality are whats makin streets hot the 70's had og setting the game and border line than next hard gen was the 80's that era had obg comin up 'than after that the T gen came up with otg's if u look at this way most obgs was babys born during the 70's very few was crip seed while in the tg generation mostly born around 80's u had a gang of crip seed comin up in the tg era first otg s came up late 90's while obg's generation who was a hard generation had the hood on locc this cycle of 10 year is the cycle of a generation and during the comin up phase thats were violence rise thats only a theori a point of view
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Re: 1980 -- highest murder rate in LA history
1980 and 1995 are the two worst years .
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Re: 1980 -- highest murder rate in LA history
Most OG's told me 1988 was the coldest year
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Re: 1980 -- highest murder rate in LA history
defenatly true for cpt 88 was haaard
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Re: 1980 -- highest murder rate in LA history
i kinda look back and see the hits spiked up during that era because there was a breakdown in varrio order (imo) coupled with other social factors.. i remember us talking about how reagan was going to be a mofo of a donald trump for us mexs, so that was a precursor of the conflict that was to head up to LA. You had a multitude of factors that contributed to the casualties of street war; the first and greatest, the availability of fuscas (guns), anything you want became available on the streets. Second; Chemicals (drugs), crank, dust, juice, crack, acido, you name it, it was all out there fukkin up minds, doing wonders to your mental sensitivities. Third; population growth, all then Salvis and Centros coming up with some crazy was ideas of how to gang bang in LA. Then you have the media, blowing all up on the big screen,blow up everything, it's kool, lol, not to mention the mobility which gangsters now had to get around town and go blast on fukkers from across the city way out there which before you wouldn't even have ran into before, but now with everyone going to schools all over outside their neighborhood. In the 1980s we also lost a whole mess of regular jobs, it was vicious trying to make it on the regurlar barrio world; the whole structure of business society was changing from mom and pops to chain stores and cheit like that, so times weer hard, homies weren't making it, they had to turn to selling roks and cheit, so if you're were out there working like that to make ends meet for your lady and new child, yeah homie, all kinds of factors contributed to the degradation of structure and morality, hence the madness that came out of it, but i believe the madness was already there, it just wasn't recognized as such because it did not affect suburbia as much, and teh world didn't realize what was happening in LA previously.