Angry Cabbies is offering cash rewards for information about the “Tap and Snatch” crew that destroyed 22 drivers in 22 precincts over the past eight weeks.
Fernando Mateo New York State Taxi Drivers Federation The NYPD told Cabbies that they should have spoken about Spree. This often relies on scammers who seize driver phones and wire cash through apps like Zelle and Venmo.
Also, according to the NYPD, they will look at the driver's phone and ask them to be able to enter their address and change their destination.
“Mobile phones today are equivalent to cash, and the criminals there know this,” Mateo said. “So they're no longer putting their guns on your head and saying, 'Give me your cash.' Instead, they say, “Give me your phone.”
“Then they'll do Zel, Benmo or whatever they have to do to take all the cash you have,” he said. “It's not the $100 that might be in my pocket, it's now thousands of dollars.”
One of the unfortunate victims lost $7,000 to the crew. He said that when the driver is slow, members will simply welcome taxis or jump to the back seat.
“Most of them are either armed with knives or pretending to be armed,” Mateo said. “If the driver is heading forward and someone puts something around his neck here, he doesn't know if it's a toothpick or a knife.”
Mateo also made the NYPD a pillar because he didn't tell cabbage about previous crimes.
“This is a pattern that should be advised in early January after the third or fourth robbery of a mobile phone,” he said.
“But if the NYPD doesn't teach us anything, there's no way we can communicate with the 30,000 drivers there every day and the drivers that are taken away every day,” he continued. “We request… The NYPD can tell you when the pattern will occur and stop it. [them] From now on. ”
The department is investigating crime, he said. And the union offers $2,000 to anyone who can communicate to officials behind the crime.
“They're very smart… because they've hit 22 times in 22 different precincts,” Mateo said. “They don't do that in the same neighborhood.”
“We have 200,000 taxi drivers in New York City, so we have 200,000 possible targets that we can target at any time.”
Mateo also condemned the bail reforms, saying authorities should “protect victims who are more fierce, stronger, more demanding, and suffering from crime.”
“It doesn't matter if he's black, Chinese, Spanish, white,” he said. “If you commit a crime, you should be trapped.”
