Crime Creeps Higher In NYC As Pressure Continues To Rise On Mayor Adams
During Mayor Eric Adams’s initial fiscal year in office, significant increases in major crimes persisted, while the response times of the NYPD slowed across all categories, as outlined in the mayor’s annual report.
The extensive Mayor’s Management Report, which delves into all aspects of city governance and this year emphasizes the migrant crisis on numerous occasions, reveals that felony crimes reached nearly 127,000 reported incidents during the fiscal year 2023, marking a 6.4% surge from the previous year. This also represents a substantial increase of more than 35.6% compared to pre-pandemic figures. This report encompasses data from July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023.
Only two crime categories, namely murder and rape, demonstrated improvements, while all others exhibited year-over-year increases. Concurrently, the average response times for all types of crimes escalated by almost two minutes, reaching 14 minutes and 24 seconds.
Even when it came to critical and serious ongoing crimes, the responses from the police force were notably sluggish, with critical incidents taking more than half a minute longer, clocking in at 9 minutes, and reports of serious crimes necessitating just over 13 minutes for an officer to arrive, which is over a minute longer than previous response times.
Breaking down the crime statistics from the report:
- Murder decreased by 9%, from 465 to 424 incidents.
- Rape decreased by 7%, with 1,088 cases compared to 1,168.
- Robbery saw a 5% increase, rising from 16,178 to 17,047 incidents.
- Felony assault increased by 8%, with 26,959 cases reported, compared to 25,034.
- Burglary increased by 2%, from 14,793 to 15,054 incidents.
- Grand larceny rose by 5%, with 51,455 cases compared to 49,227.
- Car theft increased substantially by 20%, rising from 12,448 to 14,902 incidents.
The report also underscores the NYPD’s renewed emphasis on “broken windows” policing, with 134,580 minor citations issued, nearly double the number from the previous year. An earlier revelation by The Post exposed a significant increase in public drinking citations under the new administration.
The report acknowledges the department’s achievements in closing cases, highlighting a significant rise in major felony arrests to nearly 50,000, an increase of approximately 7,000 arrests. Furthermore, gun-related incidents in the city, a focal point of the Adams administration, decreased by 23%, resulting in 412 fewer victims of gun violence.
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