General crime in New York Metropolis dropped in 2023 over 2022; we’re nonetheless the “most secure huge metropolis in America,” as Mayor Adams boasted not too long ago — however that’s chilly consolation after we’re nonetheless far behind 2019, the final yr earlier than the damaging results of our criminal-justice “reforms” made themselves seen.
Contemplate automobile thefts: 5,438 in 2019; 15,802 in 2023.
That’s a leap of 191% — and 15% increased than 2022’s terrible whole of 13,741.
Auto theft is against the law of huge social import, almost as huge a violation as a house break-in.
And sure, insurance coverage can cowl it, however the problem of getting paid out and getting one other automobile is a life-wrecking inconvenience.
That a large chunk of the rise was apparently pushed by social-media dares over stealing Hyundais and Kias solely proves simply how dangerous the lawlessness has gotten.
Crime is up 31% total since 2019, with huge jumps in felony assaults (virtually 35%), shootings (27%) and robberies (26%).
Sure, crime fell in 2023 over 2022 in 5 of the seven main crime classes, together with a 12% drop in homicides and 25% in shootings.
However that’s nonetheless a 21% rise in murders over 2019.
And these numbers don’t even contact our shoplifting plague, which led the nation from mid-2019 to summer time 2023 with a 64% enhance (does anybody suppose it’s gotten higher since then?).
It’s left retailers (those who haven’t closed) locking up items and their workers weak to unstable repeat offenders, all efforts to accommodate a brand new actuality created by progressive indifference to the plight of common New Yorkers.
And the general dangerous vibes which are holding vacationers away from Broadway: 2023 ticket gross sales are down 17% versus the 2018-2019 season (the final full season per COVID) — with an enormous chunk of older guests from the suburbs, a key demo, saying they’re now staying away for security causes.
Adams and NYPD Commissioner Edward A. Caban are combating the nice struggle on crime; that is finally an issue attributable to the leftist ideologues who dominate Albany and our personal Metropolis Council.
However with the NYPD’s ranks shrinking and people lefties seeking to pump out extra justice “reforms,” it’s far too early for the mayor to crow “Now we have turned the nook of crime in our metropolis.”