NYC shootings up nearly 200%, Shootings, burglaries and auto theft surging in public housings during lockdown

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NYC shootings up nearly 200% compared to same time last year

Car theft up 63% in NYC amid coronavirus lockdown

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Shootings, burglaries and auto theft surging in NYCHA complexes during lockdown

By Dean Balsamini and Sara Dorn, NY Post, May 16, 2020:

Shootings, burglaries and auto thefts at New York’s public housing complexes have skyrocketed during the coronavirus lockdown.

Auto thefts surged 38% in the four weeks ending May 10, and shootings and burglaries each increased 17%.

But the other five serious crime categories — murder, rape, robbery, grand larceny and felony assault — held steady or fell, and the total number of serious crimes in the NYCHA network plummeted nearly a third.

The NYPD has logged 55 shootings in the projects so far this year, compared with 50 reported in the same period in 2019 — a 10% uptick.

The James Weldon Johnson Houses and and King Towers, located three blocks apart in Harlem, had no shootings last year but each already had two through May 10.

In one of the shootings at the Johnson Houses, Richard Robayo, 44, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head Feb. 19. The NYPD is still looking for the killer.

An NYPD source previously told The Post that the department attributed rising auto thefts — a 63% citywide increase — to bail reforms enacted this year that reduce the penalty for stealing cars to a “desk appearance ticket.”

NYCHA has seen a 5% percent increase in robberies so far this year, compared to 10% across the city.

One mugging involved a pizza delivery driver, 21, outside of East New York’s Pink Houses in February. The man was run over by a car when the two attackers knocked him to the ground in a a struggle over a pizza.

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Bob
Bob
3 years ago

Only 200%? I would expect it to be much much higher, due to the moron mayor stpid policies.

Hans Wellington
Hans Wellington
3 years ago
Reply to  Bob

Is it any wonder ? Releasing prisoners and letting them including any other criminals perfectly disguised in masks roam the streets. I think that 200% is a great under statement.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

Who is really surprised? I guess the solution is to release MORE criminals from prison during this “lockdown”. Criminals can’t work because businesses are shut down, aren’t eligible for this government bail out so what are they left with? CRIME! Crime pays! Plus it they are arrested, they are just booked and depend on the “honor system” to show up for their court date for the crime they committed. Law enforcement has become an obscene joke.

Lagertha
Lagertha
3 years ago

What did the bureaucrats think? That violent felons would play nice when released?

Dumbasses.

Kuffar
Kuffar
3 years ago

And they know they will NOT be arrested or hassled. Cops don’t do their job, courts don’t prosecute. Free ride at the expense of the citizens.

anonQ
anonQ
3 years ago

dems are really good at increasing crime. Thats one of the things they do best.

cylde
cylde
3 years ago

Jews have the lowest crime rates and blacks have the highest crime rates so i hope the police are protecting Jewish neighborhoods, and letting the blacks kill each other.

Roma Mikhasev
Roma Mikhasev
3 years ago

lockdown is not for everyone

Radman414
Radman414
3 years ago

It would be interesting to see the same stats from LA, Chicago, Baltimore and Detroit, etc., all cities with big debt and big urban slums run by Democrats comment image

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