Stabbings on rise in NYC during surge in major crime

Stabbings are on an increase within the Massive Apple amid a citywide surge in main crime, in accordance with the newest figures obtained by The Submit.

The statistics, which cowl the interval by means of Aug. 7, present that stabbings have risen by 11% in comparison with the identical span final 12 months – from 2,465 to 2,756. 

Deadly stabbings have jumped a whopping 43% – from 48 to 69 – throughout the identical interval, the info exhibits. 

“Individuals aren’t afraid to hold weapons, so clearly they aren't nervous [about carrying] knives,” a Manhattan cop informed The Submit. “Plus it's a lot simpler to come up with a knife.”

A Staten Island cop blamed the dearth of great penalties for offenders.

“In the event you get caught carrying a knife – even a machete – you simply get a DAT [desk appearance ticket],” the officer informed The Submit. “It's a misdemeanor. No worth for human life.”

The scene the place a 14-year-old boy was stabbed to demise on the 137th Road/Metropolis School subway station throughout a struggle with one other teen.

Robert Miller

Simply this weekend, 62-year-old Anthony McEnteer was fatally stabbed following a dispute at The Christopher, a homeless shelter on West twenty fourth Road in Chelsea, police mentioned.

Paul De Medina, 59, was arrested on the scene and charged with homicide, cops mentioned. 

Late final month, Richard Sanchez, 29, was stabbed to demise with a damaged bottle in broad daylight when a struggle broke out throughout a soccer sport at Fort Washington Park, authorities mentioned.

Acquaintance Ronald Guilcapi, 24, was arrested and charged with homicide, police mentioned.

Deadly stabbings — which embrace the July 9 subway station assault that killed a 14-year-old boy — have jumped a whopping 43 % to date this 12 months.

Christopher Sadowski

“In the event you get caught carrying a knife – even a machete – you simply get a DAT [desk appearance ticket],” a Manhattan cop informed The Submit.

Gabriella Bass

Additionally in late July, a crazed attacker stabbed a Bronx man to demise in a broad daylight assault in entrance of his spouse — who tried in useless to struggle off the suspect with a pry bar, cops mentioned. 

The sufferer — Nathaniel Rivers, 35, a dad-of-one who was well-liked within the neighborhood — was stabbed within the chest and rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, the place he was pronounced lifeless. 

Franklin Mesa, 19, was arrested a short while later and charged with homicide, manslaughter and felony possession of a weapon, cops mentioned. Police described him as schizophrenic. 

The suspect allegedly attacked two different folks final 12 months and was referred to as a “neighborhood menace.” 

In early July, a 14-year-old boy was stabbed to demise on the 137th Road/Metropolis School subway station in Hamilton Heights throughout a struggle with one other teen, in accordance with police.

In a current stabbing on the rails, 33-year-old Leo Frasier was knifed within the again on the escalator on the 161 St-Yankee Stadium subway station round 1:30 p.m. Sunday, cops mentioned. 

He was taken to Lincoln Medical Middle, the place he was listed in secure situation.

Cops say the assailant could have gone berserk as a result of he wrongly believed the sufferer snapped a photograph of him.

Frasier mentioned that earlier than the assault, he had complained that the suspect was standing too near him. He additionally believes he was focused as a result of he's homosexual, however cops couldn't verify any hate crime investigation. 

No arrests have been made. 

The NYPD investigates the scene of a July deadly stabbing within the Bronx.

James Keivom

The rise in stabbings comes amid a 36% spike in main crime citywide as of Sunday. 

Grand larceny was up a whopping 48.3%, from 20,374 to 30,205 incidents, auto theft rose 42%, from 5,589 to 7,939, and theft jumped 39.8%, from 7,366 to 10,294, over the identical interval in 2021, the info present.

Rapes elevated 10%, from 892 to 989, and felonious assaults had been up 19.5%, from 13,086 to fifteen,640, the statistics present.

In the meantime, murders had been down 8.1%, from 284 to 261, the variety of folks shot dropped 7.4%, from 1,101 to 1,020, and the variety of capturing incidents fell 10.1%, from 938 to 843, in accordance with the NYPD knowledge.

“The politicians will say ‘Homicide is down!’ and ignore every thing else,” Joseph Giacalone, a retired NYPD sergeant and adjunct professor at John Jay School of Prison Justice in Manhattan informed The Submit earlier this week. “In the meantime, every thing else is God terrible.”