Have you checked the murder rates in Florida cities lately? I bet you live in a pretty dangerous area.
Are we comparing states or cities? Or a city to a state? Because if it is your intent to compare NYC to the 3rd most populous state in the nation, well that's a bit of an apples to oranges. And I live in an extremely safe area. High levels of police and military. And everyone is armed.
Check the murder rate in the closest city to you. There’s probably a better than even chance the murder rate is higher there than NYC or Chicago. Y’all have some pretty serious gang wars down there.
The only crime they have down in Tampa is people nearly killing each other as they rush to overbid on houses with cash offers on the first day they are on the market.
And where is this that you are "seeing" it? I have a suspicion why this is, but i need to see your data source first.