European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Not car patrols new Yorkus Central Park. There have been More than 2,000 murders in the a to this year. The surge in crime is prompting Many new yorkers to flee to the suburbs. New Day ,. A As 1990 draws to a close experts say it will have been americans most murderous year with a grim record of More than 23,000 slayings they attribute the Tell to a lethal convergence of social factors some say the violence signals the Advent of a bloody decade on american streets. Drugs guns unemployment and underemployment combined with the dawning of adolescence for the children of baby Boomers have created a demographic and social climate for such killing and the Ages of victims have declined markedly. The centers for disease control reported last week that a homicide is now the no 1cause of death for Black males Ages 15 to 24. Although statistics show that drug use and drug a new culture of violence availability Are declining drugs have created a new culture of violence on the streets. A i think drug trafficking and the violence associated with  created a whole different Milieu Quot said Stephen Rickman director of statistical analysis at the District of Columbia s office of criminal Justice plans and analysis Quot i. Think people find a growing acceptance of the use of  a. It the Senate judiciary  predicted that 23,200 people will become homicide victims this. A year a new High Over the 21,040 in 19s0, for the first six months of 1990. There was an 8 percent Overall increase in the number of murders in the United states according to the fat. And by the end of november Many cities had already outstripped their 1989 totals. New York with its record breaking total of More than 1 2,000 murders already this year was by no Means alone in the Overall trend. In Chicago the figure of 786 murders was already 44 higher than the year end 1989 figure. The District of Columbia had 436, a record and already More than All of last year Miami had 133, also More than in All of 1989. Similar increases were seen in a dozen other major cities with a number of them breaking records. James Fox a professor of criminal Justice at Bostons northeastern University said part of the reason for the rising Overall violent crime rate can be found in demographics a phenomenon he Calls the Quot baby Boomerang a \ Quot the  War ii children responsible for the. I crime wave of the�?T60s and 70s grew up and outgrew crime. And then it went Down Quot he said noting declines in the crime rate during the Early 1980s, a Quot. But Fox says the offspring of he Boomers Are now entering their High crime years. Quot these Are just signals of what is to come More generally in the United states through the rest of this Century As the baby Boomerang expands the adolescent population. Its definitely going to get. Worse Quot Fox said. A. A a. The baby Boomerang generation is coming of age at a time of minimal employment opportunities for the a. Quot / uneducated. And Many and pie Scon to Quot correctly perceive that drug Selling yields much higher incomes than most of them can expect to obtain from legitimate purposes a a recent Rand drug policy research Center study concluded. \ a. Quot there a a declining Blue Conar Job Market and a withdrawal of investment in education housing health.  cultural activities which would be the support to allow people to make some choices Quot said Mel Grizer executive director of United Community Center i Brooklyn a East new York Section one of the City a most murderous precincts. A a / a. J think for a lot of Young men in the Community they see a society and a Job Market that demands a High level of educational skills and technical skills they see that by Leslie Dreyfous associated press. R. Glenn Fishman and his i wife Joanne Wallenstein wanted Tostik it out in new York. But the City wore them Down. A their car was broken into eight times in a Quot 12 months they were mugged hassled by homeless beggars frightened on the subway at night. They did no to want to. Witness the final Urban terror murder. A More than a Home the couple and their. Two Young children finally sought a Haven in. Scarsdale a gabled suburb about 40 minutes from new York by  we feel bad abandoning the City Quot said Fishman a researcher at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Quot but the problems seem to be growing at such a clip that a to of people Are finding it s a Good time to make a  added his wife a a it a sad for the City Quot Quot a there is much for new York City to mourn. Statistics  for. Harlem and Flatbush Are touching a Safe Quot neighbourhoods. It is More difficult for people to ignore the violence step Over the Many beggars in their path. New York s welfare caseload numbers 830,000  the population of All. But America s 10 largest cities. Someone is escape from Urban terror robbed every six minutes and an average of 366 cars Are stolen daily. Among the subway users about 200,000 jump the turnstiles and ride free each Day. Quot violence is reaching people it never a a reached before, Ellen. Kardanow 30, an executive Recruiter for the Gap . Quot it used to be that there were certain. Parts of Manhattan where you Felt relatively Safe Quot said Kai Danw who is looking for a suburban Home where she and her a. Husband can Start a family Quot now the a a violence could be  a. A. It is this sense of randomness that drives Many couples Back to the secure relatively quiet suburban lifestyle they knew As. Children and in Many cases swore off As Young adults. A. The . Census Bureau does no to break a Down new York metropolitan area migration but suburban real estate agents say that weary Urban couples looking for a change lately have Given their stumping. Market a modest boost. A Quot Many think the City in t getting any Quot better and a lot. Think its going to get  said Merritt Mitchell president of tire  listings service a a Jot of Young couples Are looking to get out Quot a but along with the contents of their apartments Many sex new yorkers end up bringing a sense of guilt with them to the Quot suburbs where Homes Start at about $175,000. Their consciences suggest it would be nobler to stay and fight for the City a future. Quot Quot Quot a but you have to look at it from a standpoint of self preservation Quot said Marc Tartell 36, advertising director at a amp a brands inc. Quot things Felt out of . As the tar tells were packing up a moving Van bound for Westchester county in september someone  suitcases stuffed with their children a baby clothes. The theft was a final kick in the pants a reminder of Why the longtime new yorkers were getting  i like City living. I just done to like living in new York anymore Quot said Barbara Tartell 31, a vice president at Goldman Sachs amp co. Quot the presence of undesirable people is becoming More obvious Quot. Jobless angry addicted Young people used to hang put near the Tartella a Home on the upper West Side their preschool age son already was asking about prostitution a crack  homelessness. Their new two Story five bedroom colonial Home is altogether different. The kids have a backyard now Trees to swing from a Street made for Quot kick the can and neighbourhood pals ready to play such a games.,. Local taxes Are higher but the Public schools in Scarsdale Aren t overcrowded a and underfunded like those in. The City. And a the $7,500 kindergarten tuition the  a faced in new York was anything but cheap. New suburbanites say they wish their. Kids could grow up with the City s Energy a cd ure and diversity. But those things Quot Quot a mean nothing parents say if their children Are frightened stressed out constantly on Edge. A., its a fight or flight situation Quot said Charlie Clough an abstract artist who a a shares a Greenwich Village town House with his wife and their two Young sons a it s a a up Pable a a a these Are real bullets going a. Clough and his wife i Trovato started. Thinking about a move after a sniper \ opened fire at their 10-year-old songs Uttke league game. A Quot there l am tying on the Street with. Bullets whizzing overhead and my son a a a freaking out said Trovato a graphic designer it started us wondering whether there in t a better Way to live,�?T1. A a a Page 16 the stars and stripes monday december 17, 1990