The number of homicides, shootings and overall victims of gun violence in New York City in just ended July saw double-digit percentage increases compared to the same month last year, according to new statistics.
The worrying figures have helped drive an increase of 36.8% in felonies overall so far this year compared to the same period in 2021, which continues with a gloomy trend.
“I am scared every day that I walk out the door”, he told the New York Post a maintenance worker from Brooklyn from 51 years she only identified herself as Vee. “Bullets have no name,” lamented the East New York resident.
“Bullets have no name”
Resident of Brooklyn, NYC
All seven major NYC crime categories show overall increase of 36.8% so far of the year, driven primarily by grand theft, auto theft and other theft. That figure is higher than 19. 1% that the same crime rate had at the end of June.
In general, so far this year compared to the same period of 2021, grand thefts increased 48%, of 19,624 cases to 29,129; car thefts skyrocketed 43%, from 5,345 to 7,444; and other thefts increased 39.4%, from 7,099 to 9,893 incidents, according to NYPD data as of Sunday 31 July.
The good news is that murders are down 4.2% so far this year compared to 2021, and victims and shootings decreased 6% and 7.8%, respectively.
But specifically in July the murders experienced an increase of 35% compared to the same month last year, going from 31 a 42 cases. Shooting victims and weapons incidents are also up nearly 10%.
These figures confirm the fears of experts that New York was going to experience a spike in violence this summer, both with firearms and blades .
In NYC, armed violence continues unleashed in 2022, especially with young attackers and perpetrators, posing a great challenge to the new mayor Eric Adams, who since taking office in January has encountered obstacles within his own Democratic party and leaders of “Black Lives Matter” (BLM) to face the crisis.
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