Shootings soar in January as most major crimes in NYC return to pre-COVID levels: police data

Almost all main crime classes rose to pre-pandemic ranges in January 2022, NYPD statistics present.
Christopher Sadowski

Crime, together with automobile thefts and shootings, soared within the Large Apple in January, based on NYPD knowledge launched Thursday — the identical day President Biden visited the town in response to the rise in violence.

The primary month of 2022 recorded a 38.5 p.c enhance in almost all main crime classes — rape, theft, felony assault, housebreaking, grand larceny and automobile thefts — in a return to pre-pandemic ranges, the statistics present.

There have been 100 shootings in January, a leap from the 12 months prior when 76 have been logged. These figures present a marked enhance from 2020 and 2019 when there have been 67 and 52 acts of gunplay, respectively.

Automobile thefts, one other COVID-era crime development, noticed the biggest enhance final month from prior years.

Over the primary few weeks of 2022, New York Metropolis noticed 1,187 reviews of grand larceny auto, based on the info. That's about double 2021 and 2020, when 620 and 578, respectively, have been logged, and almost triple that very same month in 2019.

Crime soared within the metropolis through the first month of 2022, based on NYPD knowledge.

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NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell didn't maintain a information convention to announce the month-to-month crime stats.

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Homicide was the one class to development down from January versus the identical month final 12 months — 28 in comparison with 33, based on the info.

The month-to-month crime statistics weren't introduced at a press convention by Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell, as her predecessors repeatedly did alongside the mayor and police brass.

The information comes the identical day Biden met with Sewell, Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul following the murders of NYPD officers Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora in Harlem.

President Biden met with Mayor Adams and Gov. Hochul to handle the rising gun violence within the Large Apple.

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There have been 100 shootings that happened in New York Metropolis in January 2022.

Christopher Sadowski

“It stays vital that every one companions come to the desk on this shared mission to fight gun violence,” Sewell mentioned at a press briefing with Biden at One Police Plaza.

General, main crime was up in January in comparison with the prior few years. Nearly all of the rise could be attributed to automobile thefts, however an uptick in felony assaults and grand larceny additionally added to the whole tally.

Cops recorded 1,735 felony assaults final month, up 12 p.c from the identical time the prior two years, the info reveals.

January noticed 4,047 grand larcenies, up from 2,559 final 12 months and three,708 in 2020, based on the info.