Opinion
New York City crime surged 38.5% overall in the first month of 2022
New York Metropolis noticed a 38.5% surge in total crime final month, based on knowledge launched by the NYPD on Thursday, the identical day that President Biden visited the town to debate methods for reining in crime.
The surge was pushed by a 91.5% enhance in thefts of autos, a 58.1% enhance in grand larceny, a 33.1% enhance in robberies, a 26.7% enhance in rapes, a 12.3% enhance in felony assaults, and a 7.5% enhance in burglaries.
The one main crime class that fell within the first month of 2022 in comparison with 2021 was homicide, which decreased by 15.2%. Shootings, nevertheless, went up 31.6%.
Crime surged 38.5% in New York Metropolis final month over the identical time interval in 2020.
(NYPD)
President Biden met with Mayor Eric Adams, Gov. Kathy Hochul, and different officers in New York Metropolis on Thursday, rejecting calls from the progressive wing of his occasion to defund the police whereas additionally calling for gun regulation reforms.
“The reply is to not abandon our streets,” Biden informed the officers. “The reply is to return collectively, policing communities, constructing belief, and making us all safer.”
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Biden’s go to got here someday after a funeral was held for 27-year-old NYPD Detective Wilbert Mora, who was shot and killed by Lashawn McNeil on Jan. 21 in a Harlem residence. Mora’s accomplice, 22-year-old Jason Rivera, was additionally shot and killed.
An off-duty NYPD officer was shot in Queens throughout an tried carjacking on Tuesday. The officer was within the hospital in secure situation on Wednesday.
Six NYPD officers have been shot thus far this 12 months. Nationwide, not less than 30 officers had been shot final month, a 67% enhance over final 12 months.
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Transit crime in NYC went up 75.2% final month amid a spate of high-profile assaults within the metropolis’s subway system.
Michelle Go, a 40-year-old Asian-American girl, was killed when she was pushed in entrance of an oncoming prepare on the Instances Sq. station on Jan. 15.
A couple of week later, a 61-year-old man was pushed onto subway tracks on the Fulton Road station, however he was capable of get to security earlier than a prepare got here.
A Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) officer appears to be like for passengers on the final cease on the Coney Island station in Brooklyn, New York.
(Corey Sipkin/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
The assaults have prompted New York City council members to call for subway platforms at stations throughout the town.
Hate crimes additionally surged 72% in New York Metropolis final month, pushed principally by a 275% enhance in crimes towards Jewish folks.
It’s a development that began final 12 months, as hate crimes rose 96% in 2021.
