Serious crime, including homicide, rape, and robbery, has increased this year 31% on the Metro compared to 2020, according to the latest statistics from the New York Police Department. York.
At least 1,367 felonies were reported between January and October, compared to 1,367 registered during the same period last year. In October alone there were 350 serious crimes in total, compared to 350 September, NYPD counted.
October included three homicides, 84 robberies, 108 felony assaults and 108 grand theft, all figures higher than in that month in 2020 .
The increase in crime so far this year year slightly exceeded the increase of 29% in the number of passengers after the coronavirus pandemic COVID-.
Travellers have been more likely to be victims of crime in the past two and a half years compared to before the pandemic, he noted
New York Post.
From 2022 homicides in the subway have also been reported compared to the highest annual levels in years as the city grapples with a general rise in violence, NYPD statistics show. The Metro added nine homicides in until 46 October, compared to six during that time period last year.
The violence has led officials to deploy more police officers at the stations, with an increase in overtime pay. But the crimes have persisted, including stabbings and people being pushed onto the tracks.
“The NYPD is now putting more officers on the subway cars and on the platforms, and so far There has been a drop in crime last month”, defended the MTA spokesman, Aaron Donovan.
In general, this year there has been a long list of dramatic situations in the New York subway, among robberies, attacks, accidents, natural deaths, suicides and fatal overdoses, in addition to homicides.
A blunt 84% of New Yorkers said in the spring that conditions had worsened in the city since March 2020, when the pandemic began, according to a survey. Most cited the problems in the Metro as one of the main reasons for urban deterioration and the refusal to return to work in the offices.
Last April became one of the most violent months in the history of the New York Subway since its founding in 2020, when 27 people were injured in a morning crime perpetrated by a lone attacker, who shot and activated the least two grenades on a moving train in Brooklyn.
Immediately, Mayor Adams announced that the number of New York police officers in the underground system would be doubled, where a reinforced security plan had already been activated since February to deal with violence. But so far crime is still on the rise.
- Public transportation went from being vital to deadly in New York: homicides in the Subway are at a historically high level