NYC saw record levels of felony crimes last year, most in over 15 years

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NYC saw record levels of felony crimes last year, most in over 15 years

By Craig McCarthy
February 12, 2023

The streets of New York are meaner than they’ve been in more than 15 years thanks to soaring felony crimes, new police data reveal.

More than 170,000 felony crimes were reported in the Big Apple last year — the most since 2006, when the NYPD first started making such statistics publicly available.

The data, released last week, shows a record 172,852 felonies reported in 2022. That’s up 20.4% from 2021, when 143,522 complaints were recorded.

“Things in a large city aren’t supposed to grow that much or go down that much in one year,” said Former NYPD supervisor Chris Hermann, now an assistant professor at Manhattan’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

“This is kind of like monumental kind of stuff,” he told The Post, “like once in a lifetime.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/02/12/crime-in-nyc-hits-levels-not-seen-since-the-mid-2000s/

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