Major Crimes Up 38% in NYC So Far This Year, NYPD Says

Main crimes in New York Metropolis are up 38% thus far this 12 months versus final, as a dip in murders was offset by large will increase in nearly each different key class tracked by the NYPD.

For the 12 months so far by means of Jan. 30, New York Metropolis recorded 26 murders, versus 32 in the identical interval in 2021, in accordance with the NYPD’s newest CompStat information.

However in any other case, numbers have been up sharply year-over-year:

• Rape, up 27%
• Theft, up 33%
• Felony assault, up about 12%
• Housebreaking, up 6%
• Grand larceny, up 57%
• Grand larceny auto, up about 93%

Throughout all classes, capturing incidents are up 32% and hate crimes are up 79%, the division famous.

Crimes within the transit system, the place the brand new NYPD chief of transit has promised an instantaneous improve within the police presence, are up 70% this 12 months.

The sharp surge in each bodily and property crimes poses a problem for brand new New York Metropolis mayor — and former cop — Eric Adams, only one month into his administration. The problem was solely magnified by the capturing of 5 NYPD officers, two fatally, throughout the month.

Adams campaigned on a message of safety, saying the town’s residents and guests needed to really feel protected to ensure that tourism to rebound and for workplace employees to return to just about empty skyscrapers.

On Monday, Metropolis Corridor launched an open letter signed by greater than 200 civic and enterprise leaders, backing the mayor’s efforts to scale back crime, together with his “Blueprint to Finish Gun Violence.”

“The signatories to this letter are leaders in industries that signify greater than three million jobs in New York Metropolis,” stated Kathryn Wylde, president & CEO, Partnership for New York Metropolis, in an announcement accompanying the letter. “Public security is the primary concern of employers and employees. We’re united behind the mayor’s efforts to reverse the rise in crime.”

The rise in crime additionally comes at a strenuous time in Manhattan, the place new District Legal professional Alvin Bragg is battling intense criticism of his technique to not prosecute some crimes, and to scale back expenses in others. Gov. Kathy Hochul just lately met with Bragg, after suggesting she knew “full effectively” she had the authority to take away him from workplace.

Hochul stated Tuesday that Bragg was taking the steps wanted to handle what she described as a shared imaginative and prescient to scale back crime.