A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair. The Mariel boatlift was a mass emigration of Cubans, who traveled from Cuba's Mariel Harbor to the United States between 15 April and 31 October 1980. The number of murders rose 8.6 percent nationwide in 2016, according to the FBI’s newest round of crime statistics, released Monday.There were an … Britain is experiencing a crime wave, and the headlines are shocking. It turns out that the city had many more low-crime than high-crime years. Marielitos are believed to be responsible for half of all violent crime in Miami. The 1980s greatly tested New York City’s strength: residents fled the city in record numbers, government mismanagement caused near bankruptcy of the city, and the introduction of crack-cocaine unleashed an unprecedented wave of drug addiction and violence. Alarmed and Dangerous: A Look at Crime in 1970s-80s America. A young director intent on making "the greatest color crime movie ever" can't seem to finish his script- … Many of my Miami friends/family grew up in the very hoods the aforementioned drug CEO's ran. London has for the first time ever passed New York in the number of murders so far this year. Crime Wave ( 1985) Photos. Cast. In the 1980s, gay men began to step out of the shadows and speak openly about their sexuality. But with that new freedom came a rise in hate crimes. It came out in 1985 and it was only released theatrically in Kansas and Alaska so I never saw it until I saw it on VHS in 1991. New York City saw 1,814 homicides in 1980 — three times what we have today — while the population declined to just over 7 million from nearly 8 million a decade before. Bartley and Williams (2015) posit that the violence in the mid-1980s is driven not by crack markets but rather by a decrease in prices resulting from a supply shock of “entry level” guns.

Books Crime 1970s 1980s cinema crime horror movies television violence. Hmmmm. Directed by Sam Raimi. Crime Rate in the United States, 1980–2014 (rate per 100,000 inhabitants) The following table shows the crime rate per 100,000 inhabitants committed in the United States from 1980 to 2014 (the most recent data available), including violent crime, property crime, rape, robbery, and more. Miami's crime wave largely died down after the 90's, because that's when many of the drug lords were taken off the street (either killed or doing life behind bars).