Tag: December 1868
Crime Wave Hits New York: A Year of Bloodshed on the Streets
On a chilly December morning in 1868, the people of New York awoke to a city in chaos. The once-thriving streets of Manhattan were now plagued by a wave of violent crime that showed no signs of abating. According to reports, the New York Dispatch, the city’s leading newspaper, the total number of homicides in…
