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Murders in NYC surge for second week in a row as coronavirus lockdown continues

By Peter Aitken | Fox News

Despite coronavirus lockdown measures, murders in New York City have doubled over last years's numbers for the second consecutive week.

This week last year, the city saw five murders to this year's 10 murders, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) reported.

The NYPD regularly publishes statistics through its CompStat portal, comparing current stats with the equivalent period in the previous year. While some crimes -- including felony assault and rape -- have declined, murder has increased, as did burglary and grand larceny auto, according to the department.



In the first quarter of 2020, from January through March, murders increased by just under 6 percent in comparison to 2019, with the NYPD reporting 92 murders up from 87 during the first quarter last year.

But over the last 28 days -- during which the city has observed lockdowns and other pandemic safety measures -- that number has spiked. Murder has increased by 55 percent: 28 murders vs. 18 in the same period last year.

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Three months ago or so, someone who looked like my avatar photo probably would have the cause of a 911 call. Now, it's "normal" and perfect for concealing one's identity. Throw in the mass-release of "non-violent" (Can you say "Plea Bargain"?) offenders ...
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Brooklyn man arrested on attempted rape days after being released from Rikers Island
By Tina Moore and Vincent Barone
April 25, 2020

An East Flatbush man who’d been jailed on a rape charge attacked and almost raped another woman just 10 days after he was released from Rikers Island over coronavirus fears, police sources said.

Police responding to a 911 call found Robert Pondexter, 57 — and his crackpipe — at around 5:45 a.m. Saturday on East New York Avenue, between Schenectady and Troy avenues, the sources allege.

Pondexter had allegedly been walking across the street from the Concern Heights Apartments building, a supportive housing development on the block, when he grabbed the woman by the collar and pulled her into a school parking lot. ... NY Post
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While I understand the argument for the mass-release, anyone with a quarter of a functioning brain knew some/many of those released would go on a crime spree. Protecting society should be a priority higher than protecting the inmates from a potentially fatal disease.
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

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It really should come as no surprise that these poor, scared and lonely types should seek companionship in the ways most familiar to them when outside the prison environment last time.

No one wants to be caged for the next plague, TEOTWAWKI, or any other doom spelling event.

You'd think that would be cause enough every day to color between the lines, eat your vegetables (except maybe Brussels Sprouts), and brush your teeth every day, not to mention obey the law.

But if you can't do the latter of those things, it's the chance you take. It seems strange that the Gubernator of Noo Yawk was more compassionate, in the end, toward criminals than seniors and others in assisted living, who were sent to the infection camps in facilities known to be struggling with outbreaks.
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