NYC crime up nearly 40 percent, NYPD says

[Gefn]

NEW YORK - Crime in New York City saw a major jump last month, rising by nearly 40 percent compared to January 2021.

According to the latest figures released by the NYPD, every major crime category saw an increase in January 2022 except for murder.

Shootings across the city jumped by 31.6 percent, from 76 to 100, while robberies increased by 33.1 percent and grand larceny increased by a shocking 58.1 percent. Rapes also increased to 128, from 101 last year, a 26.7 percent increase.


Murders, however, did drop, with only 28 killings reported in January 2022 compared to 33 over the same period last year.

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nypd-nyc-crime-up-nearly-40-percent

[AARguy]

I'm so old that I can remember New York City when it was safe.

[Gefn]

I'm so old that I can remember New York City when it was safe.

I’m so old I remember peep shows and hookers in Time Square. Lol.

[Kamaji]

Shootings soar in January as most major crimes in NYC return to pre-COVID levels: police data

By Craig McCarthy
February 3, 2022

Crime, including car thefts and shootings, soared in the Big Apple in January, according to NYPD data released Thursday — the same day President Biden visited the city in response to the rise in violence.

The first month of 2022 recorded a 38.5 percent increase in nearly all major crime categories — rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny and car thefts — in a return to pre-pandemic levels, the statistics show.

There were 100 shootings in January, a jump from the year prior when 76 were logged. Those figures show a marked increase from 2020 and 2019 when there were 67 and 52 acts of gunplay, respectively.

Car thefts, another COVID-era crime trend, saw the largest increase last month from prior years.

Over the first few weeks of 2022, New York City saw 1,187 reports of grand larceny auto, according to the data. That is about double 2021 and 2020, when 620 and 578, respectively, were logged, and nearly triple that same month in 2019.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/02/03/most-major-crime-in-nyc-returns-to-pre-covid-levels-nypd-data/

[Kamaji]

The only real question is:  does the NYC GOP have a latter-day Giuliani waiting in the wings to step up once Eric "Dinkins 2.0" Adams sufficiently screws the city back to the 1970s?

[rustynail]

It's  those 40 round Ghost Glocks.

[Kamaji]

It's  those 40 round Ghost Glocks.

You mean those weapons of war?

[Fishrrman]

"does the NYC GOP have a latter-day Giuliani waiting in the wings to step up once Eric "Dinkins 2.0" Adams sufficiently screws the city back to the 1970s?"

Well, they had Curtis Sliwa, and look how well he did.

There won't be another Giuliani.

Not because there isn't anyone who could fill his shoes.
But rather because the voting demographics have changed too much since Giuliani left office to elect such an individual again.

A good part of the voters who would elect another one like him have either died off, or moved away. The vacancies they left are now occupied by voters who will vote dem-communist "by rote".

When will Chicago elect a Republican as mayor again?
Or San Francisco?
Or Baltimore...?