The report on crime in 2023 presented this Wednesday by the New York City Police Department (NYPD), showed a detailed “movie” showing that the most serious crimes, such as homicides, were reduced by 11.9% , shootings also fell by 25% and crime incidents on the Subway showed a decrease of 2%. All of these data, contrasted with the fateful years of the pandemic, demonstrate concrete progress in the most worrying matter for New Yorkers since 2020.
However, no action so far has worked to counteract, in this same period of time, the proliferation of shoplifters and, more astonishingly, vehicle thefts.
In the five boroughs, 15,800 vehicles were stolen during the last twelve months. An alarming number compared to the 5,400 stolen in 2019. This means an increase of 191%
In the last year alone, car thefts saw the largest increase of any major crime category in New York City: the number of vehicles stolen increased 15% more than the 13,741 “missing” in the same period in 2022.
“Work to be done”
“Crime has decreased, as was our main promise when we took office, the economy is in a better place and tourism is booming. “New York is the safest large city in the entire country,” said Mayor Eric Adams at the central command of the New York Uniformed Police in Lower Manhattan.
As NYPD top brass acknowledge, robberies and robberies, as well as incidents of felony assault, particularly directed at police officers, continue to soar.
Overall, five of the seven major crime categories have decreased and progress is being made in addressing felony assaults on uniformed officers and vehicle thefts.
This rise is largely due to an increase in theft of specific Hyundai and Kia models, which are vulnerable to theft due to software vulnerabilities.
This trend, fueled by viral videos on social media, emerged in the city in September 2022, skyrocketed three months later and continues to this day.
But reports of robberies in businesses, from department stores to warehouses, continue to be the complicated point, where the NYPD will continue to focus more. For this reason, 25,000 arrests were made in 2023.
At the same time, the Uniformed Police report more arrests, more confiscation of weapons, more presence of officers in “red” zones, more outreach to communities devastated by the presence of gang members and more police intelligence, to deliver accurate blows to criminal organizations during the last 24 months.
For his part, the Head of Crime Control Strategies, Michael Lipetri, highlighted that they will continue to address with prosecutors the criminal recidivism of a group of criminals, representing a small number of people, who commit the majority of some of the major crimes. .
“We work hard to change that perception that the city is not safe. We have a lot of work to do with the rise of robberies,” he concluded.
Less than 400 homicides
386 homicides last year, a decrease of 11.9% compared to 2022. This is the first time the city has ended the year with fewer than 400 homicides since 2019. In 2020, there were 468 people murdered and 488 in 2021.
1,150 shooting victims in 2023, compared to 1,566 in 2022, which represents a decrease of 26.6%. It is the first time there have been fewer than 1,000 shootings since 2019.
27,299 incidents of felony assault in 2023, compared to 25,745 in 2022, an increase of 6%.
This article is originally published on eldiariony.com
