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NYC’s Crime Spike Continues into 2021

NYC’s Crime Spike Continues into 2021

By Yehudit Garmaise

     Last year’s shocking increase in crime in New York City is continuing into 2021, according to the New York Post.

     “Murders in the Big Apple spiked 125% in the first 10 days of 2021 compared to the same period in 2020, increasing from four to nine,” the Post reported Sunday. “And shootings continued to surge — up 24% — increasing from 25 to 31 over the same period in 2020, data show. The number of gunshot victims nearly tripled, with 36 so far this year compared to 28 during the same snapshot in 2020, a 29% increase.”

    The first shooting of 2021 in the city took place almost immediately after midnight on January 1st.

   The NYPD seems to blame Mayor Bill de Blasio’s major $1 billion cuts to the department’s budget in June, after protesters demanded that the city “Defund the Police” after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd, who used a counterfeit $20 bill at a convenience store on May 25. 

    Other criminal justice experts blame Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s progressive bail reform for the spike in crime in New York.

     “It’s only going to get worse,” he told the Post, referring to reform “laws enacted in 2020 mandate that suspects in a long list of crimes go free without having to post bail.” “It’s a year later and if bail reform was such a success, the architects and academics that helped design it would be shouting from the mountain tops. They aren’t.”

    NYPD Police Commissioner Dermot Shea has pointed the finger at the thousands of criminals who Gov. Cuomo released early from prison as a reason for more crime on the streets.

    Instead of blaming the budget cuts to the NYPD, police reform, or the early release of prisoners for the rise in crime, many Democrats have blamed the pandemic.

    Mayor Bill de Blasio has many times said that that crime is a direct result of the many displacements, anxieties, and lack of usual comforts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has claimed the increase in criminal behavior was the result of an increase in pandemic-driven poverty.


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