In 1993, 128 people were murdered in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York, breaking a record for the largest number of individual murder cases in a single NYPD precinct. The city’s murder rate was high in that era—almost 2,000 people were killed that year—but East New York stood out as a hot spot, where children were routinely caught in the crossfire of gang violence. The neighborhood, which comprises about five square miles, was considered not only the most dangerous slice of New York City, but among the most dangerous places in the country.
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