Crime graphics7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() “Things are messed up, what else can you say?” a security guard from Brooklyn, who gave his name as Frank L., 58, told The Post on Sunday near the Lower Manhattan courthouses. Longtime New Yorkers agreed the Big Apple seems to only be getting more rotten with crime. Dangerous weapons complaints, meanwhile, increased from 3,952 to 4,783. Topping the list of non-major seven felonies that jumped last year was criminal mischief, with 13,006 recorded, up from 11,052 in 2021.Ĭriminal contempt, which is typically for flouting a judge’s order rose from 8,463 to 10,216. Those things you know, certainly do matter.” Many seemingly minor crimes can often be a “prelude” to more serious offenses. “There has always been an escalation of violence with regard to domestic violence. “The misdemeanor assault becomes a felony assault becomes the domestic violence shooting, said Hermann, adding domestic violence historically according for a third of city homicides. “Criminal trespass is always a prelude to burglary, which can be a prelude, which can quickly become a robbery which can then quickly become an assault,” he said. Many seemingly minor crimes can often be a “prelude” to a more serious offenses, Hermann said. While not part of the NYPD compstat - which includes the most serious offenses, such as murder, robbery, burglary, grand larceny, car theft and rape - police experts warned other felonies should also be taken seriously. Robert Miller This year marked the first time the city topped 120,000 major crimes since 2007. Felonies are up 20.4% from 2021, when 143,522 complaints were recorded. Major crime continued to spike into the new year, with a 4.1% increase in complaints of the seven major felonies in January compared to the same time last year, according to NYPD statistics released earlier this month. “The end-of-year numbers are horrible like you can’t get like there’s no way to get around that,” Hermann said. It marked the first time the city topped 120,000 major crimes since 2007. While murders did drop significantly - which the NYPD attributed to a reduction in shootings - every other category of major crimes saw an increase, with 2022 ending with 126,588 serious offenses, a 22.4% jump from the year prior, the data shows. The staggering figures highlight the struggles that remain for Mayor Eric Adams and his police administration, who focused much of their attention on tackling gun violence and subway crime last year. It was even higher than 2006, the earliest year publicly available, which had 171,318 felony complaints recorded, the data shows. ![]() More than 170,000 felony crimes were reported in the Big Apple last year. Last year’s tally was driven by a surge in major crimes, as well as other felonies not detailed in the NYPD’s Compstat report, including criminal mischief, criminal contempt, strangulation and dangerous weapons possession. ![]() ![]() “This is kind of like monumental kind of stuff,” he told The Post, “like once in a lifetime.” “Things in a large city aren’t supposed to grow that much or go down that much in one year,” said Former NYPD supervisor Chris Hermann, now an assistant professor at Manhattan’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice. That’s up 20.4% from 2021, when 143,522 complaints were recorded. The data, released last week, shows a record 172,852 felonies reported in 2022. More than 170,000 felony crimes were reported in the Big Apple last year - the most since 2006, when the NYPD first started making such statistics publicly available. The streets of New York are meaner than they’ve been in more than 15 years thanks to soaring felony crimes, new police data reveal. NYC man who shot pen-wielding mugger once railed to The Post about crime, now faces multiple gun charges Non-binary ex-nuclear Biden official Sam Brinton out on bond after 2 weeks in jail over suitcase theft San Fran activist crowdfunding to escape ‘zombie apocalypse’ neighborhoodĪctivists who aided anti-cop protesters in Atlanta arrested for financial crimes ![]()
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