The Fear City pamphlets were distributed by New York City police and corrections officers in June 1975 during the city's financial crisis. These pamphlets, with a skull on the cover, warned visitors of the city's violent crime rates and provided nine survival tips. They were a response to municipal budget cuts that threatened over 50,000 jobs. Police unions printed over a million copies to protest reduced salaries and pensions. A similar flier was distributed at Yale University in August 2023 during a police contract negotiation.

Reproduction of a 1975 pamphlet produced and distributed by the Council for Public Safety, a front group for NYPD police unions, during a contract dispute with the city. While intended to be semi-satirical, it serves as a cop's-eye view of urban space as a cesspool of crime and of a fragile society held together by sheer force of policing alone.&nbsp;

Welcome to Fear City&nbsp; A survival guide for visitors to the City of New York

Welcome to Fear City published