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The number of homicides, shootings and general victims of gun violence in New York City in the just ended July saw increases double-digit percentages compared to the same month last year, according to new statistics.
The worrying figures have helped fuel a 36.8% increase in felonies overall so far this year compared to the same period in 2021, which continues a gloomy trend.
“I’m scared every day I go out out the door,” he said. New York Post a 51-year-old maintenance worker from Brooklyn who identified herself only as Vee. “Bullets have no name” lamented the East New York resident.
“Bullets have no name”
Resident of Brooklyn, NYC
NYC’s top seven crime categories are up 36.8% overall year-to-date, driven primarily by grand thefts, carjackings and other thefts. That figure is higher than the 31.1% that the same crime rate had at the end of June.
Overall, year to date compared to the same period in 2021, grand thefts are up 48%, from 19,624 cases to 29,129; car thefts soared 43%, from 5,345 to 7,444; and other robberies rose 39.4%, from 7,099 to 9,893 incidents, according to NYPD data through Sunday, July 31.
The good news is that murders are down 4.2% year-to-date compared to 2021, and victims and shootings are down 6% and 7.8%, respectively.
But specifically in July the murders experienced a 35% increase compared to the same month last year, going from 31 to 42 cases. Shooting victims and weapons incidents also rose nearly 10%.
These figures confirm the experts’ fears that New York was going to experience a spike in violence this summer, both with firearms and white.
In NYC, armed violence continues unleashed in 2022, especially with young attackers and perpetratorsputting up a great challenge to the new mayor Eric Adams, who since taking office in January has found obstacles within his own Democratic party y Black Lives Matter (BLM) leaders to face the crisis.
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