Posted on 08/26/2024 8:41:43 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Blades are carving up the Big Apple.
Stabbings and slashings across the city this year spiked 6% to 3,582 incidents through Aug. 11, up from 3,370 during the same period time last year, according to NYPD data requested by The Post.
So far this year, 60 people have died by the blade — an 11% surge from the 54 in 2023.
“There’s no reason for so much crime to go on,” Alton Scott, a veteran MTA conductor who needed 34 stitches to close a gruesome neck wound after being slashed in March, told The Post.
In May, 17-year-old Sarah Rivera was killed in a stabbing outside a Queens subway station during a tragic dispute with a friend, acquaintances and relatives said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I think I would actually prefer a baseball bat. I don’t have to get so close that way.
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