Posted on 03/06/2019 7:28:25 PM PST by yesthatjallen
City homicides have spiked nearly 30 percent through the first two months of 2019, leaving the NYPD scrambling to redeploy cops to troubled areas to stanch the bloodshed, the department said Monday in its monthly crime-stats briefing.
Through Sunday, the five boroughs have seen 53 murders this year, a 29.3-percent jump from the 41 slayings logged over the same period in 2018, according to the latest NYPD numbers.
The year’s troubling trend began in January, which saw 22.7 percent more murders than the first month of 2018. The situation grew even worse in February, which registered 24 murders — or 50 percent more than the 16 logged in February 2018.
The homicide hike even gave pause to Mayor de Blasio, who often touts New York as “the safest big city in America.”
“The bad news is, we see some areas of real concern, particularly when it comes to homicide,” Hizzoner said. “We take that very, very seriously.”
Fifteen of this year’s 53 homicides, or 28.3 percent, were gang-related, while a dozen, or 22.6 percent, were classified as domestic, the department said.
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Absolutely. And these are the genius cultures who want to annex the rural areas and force this failed culture on them too. If they eliminate the electoral college this is exactly what will happen.
They can try to lie to themselves all they like... But to live in a city culture like that is mental illness.
The violence is limited to the local communities, and NY state and city pale in comparison to Chi, DC, Balt. Even with the spike NYC would have around 300 homicides. Less than half of Chi whose population is maybe 30% of NYC’s. So the violence barely affects most people.
Agreed!
I’d live completely broke in a tent before I would live in the city mental chaos and insanity called “convenience” again. lol
I must assume that people live where they live because they want to live there.
HST, the cities you mentioned are not where I’d want to live or work.
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