2020 in New York is considered the most violent year in the last five years, marked not only by the coronavirus pandemic, but also by a series of protests and police reforms.
Analysts and police sources point out that the coronavirus pandemic, protests against police brutality, police reforms and the bond system, as well as an economic crisis, are determining elements that place 2020 within the year of violence.
Deaths from firearms reached 422 deaths, in addition to those caused by the COVID-19 pandemic this year.
According to eldiariony.com, “more than 95.8% have increased shootings over the previous year and an increase of more than 38.4% in the number of fatalities from gunshot wounds. Only in November there were 115 exchanges of shots in contrast to 51 last year in the same month ”.
The streets of The Bronx and BrooklynCounties have been flagged since March as violent due to their shootings and deaths.
According to what Milagros Trinidad, 73 years old, stated: “this 2020 everything was mixed so that they would take power away from the police … Now, we see fewer police officers. It’s true! You almost have to go to the police stations to talk to them “.
She is convinced that “The discrimination comes from the White House and that reinforced certain behaviors, but that does not mean that the City had to take power away from our officials. Those who pay are the poor neighborhoods, which now have less protection “said the Dominican retiree.
In the autumn, reports of such incidents soared south of The Bronx, near Yankee Stadium, where a 23-year-old was injured on Anderson Avenue.
Clashes between gang members
Police sources maintain that the detonations have their origin by confrontation between groups of gangs, which this 2020 has increased by 50%; This is reflected in the October reports, when these cases increased by 102.4% in all counties.
According to the portal, the police force reports that, “so far this year, the number of arrests for possession of weapons has increased by 15%. Last year 2,876 people were captured for this crime, this year 3,308 ”, which are indicated to have “let your guard down “, due to police reforms since summer.
On the other hand, the NYPD commissioner Dermot Shea welcomes the fact that this year the institution has faced certain challenges. Of 33 shootings recorded last year, this 2020 there are already 76.
Protests for police brutality
The protests against police brutality were felt this year since the summer throughout New York, especially in some towns in Queens.
While on the Jackson Heights and Woodside axis, firearm shots were up 100%.
However, the FBI in its September report stressed that lHomicides in the US grew by almost 15% at the beginning of the year.
Christopher Herrmann, former supervisor of NYPD crime analysts and professor of John Jay College released some of the incidents studied, which try to link the criminal upswing with the pandemic.
In New York it’s normal in summer
Their analyzes suggest that, “In New York, the normal thing is that during the summer armed violence shoots up 30%, and this year it exceeded 120%, it is simply out of control “, he stressed; that there was also no way to predict the disaster caused by the pandemic shootings, the coronavirus and protests over the death of George Floyd.
“Since the beginning of the year, we knew that the relaxation of the bail bond law was going to cause an increase in crime, but the pandemic and the looting nobody calculated it. Everything was a chaos that gave an oxygen to the gangs that felt with more freedom “, the police official concluded to eldiariony.com
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