NEW YORK – New York City had 434 homicides last year, down from 488 in the prior period, according to annual statistics released today by the city’s police department.
With the exception of homicides, all other crimes have increased compared to 2021. Thus, there are 1,615 rapes (1,491 in 2021), 17,408 robberies (13,831), 26,039 assaults (22,835) and 15,731 robberies in absentia (12,811).
All crime figures were down a lot in the last few decades, but since 2020, they’ve been up again due to factors that police attribute to the COVID-19 pandemic, the illegal entry of guns into New York, or the leniency of some laws that favor the release on bail of the defendants pending trial.
Mayor Eric Adams, a former police officer, thus completes his first year of office without having fulfilled one of the main promises that won him the 2021 election: to restore security to the city by applying a strong hand against crime.
Last month, in an interview with New York’s Fox 5, Adams again pressed the issue of bail: “The bad people are back on the street, catch, release, repeat… We have to let the system go free.” . court,” she insisted.
