Robberies are on the rise in New York City, according to police data.
While most major crimes, including shootings and homicides, are down, the number of robberies will increase by 5.6% by 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, increasing from 5,228 to 5,522 as of May 5. did.
Joseph Giacalone, a former New York City police sergeant and adjunct professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said the arrest rate for robberies is low and the solve rate for robberies is about 25% because the victims usually don’t know their attackers. I pointed out that I would stay.
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“For people who know what’s really going on, getting robbed shouldn’t be a big surprise,” he says. “Robbery is a crime where most people can’t identify the perpetrator, but the district attorney is releasing these people. It will be free for everyone.”
April saw a spate of robberies in Central Park, with three robberies occurring in just 27 hours, an increase of 350% from four to 18 as of May 5, according to the latest data available.
At the NYPD’s tourist-heavy Midtown North Precinct, robberies have jumped nearly 50% since the beginning of the year, from 45 to 67.
In the Midtown robbery on February 24, a newsstand owner was hit in the head by three men and robbed of lottery tickets and cash before leaving.
Around 2:30 p.m., masked men burst into Abdul Hossain’s newsstand at West 54th Street and Sixth Avenue and threw punches at the 67-year-old store owner.
“I was eating lunch when they came in and just started beating me,” Hossein told the Post. “They hit me in the head over and over again.”
In Brooklyn, police said three robbers attacked a 67-year-old man inside the 66th subway station around 1:30 a.m. on May 3.
The victim was punched in the face and forcibly robbed of his MetroCard and cell phone by two of the assailants on the mezzanine of the Ditmas Avenue F train station.
So far this year, the number of robberies in police stations has increased from 28 to 39, or 39.3%, according to the data.
