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#23 Whose America?, pt. 2: Inner City Blues

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The Fear of the City

In the 60s and 70s, New Yorkers were afraid to go outside in the evening or at night. The increase in violence overwhelmed the NYPD's ability to respond; criminals figured out they could do what they wanted without getting caught. People would just set fires and burn down buildings: something like 40% of all buildings that stood in the South Bronx in 1960 had been burned. And it wasn't just white people who were afraid - by the mid-60s, the black middle class was completing its own exodus out of the inner cities for safety.

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