NYC subway crime shot up nearly 20% this year, driven by jumps in assaults, robberies, more
NY Post
Subway crime skyrocketed in the first two months of 2024, rising by nearly 20% compared to this time last year — and driven by big increases in grand larcenies, felony assaults and robberies, according to newly-released NYPD statistics.
Mayor Eric Adams said the NYPD would quickly move to 12-hour tours to try to halt the burgeoning crime wave, which he blamed on the city’s rollback of its so-called subway safety plan that flooded the underground with cops in 2022.
“We saw amazing results,” Adams said during Tuesday comments at City Hall. “Increasing the number of police officers in a subway was very visible, that whole ‘omnipresent’ concept and theme. We had to scale back after the money ran out.”
He added: “We still want [more] visibility, moving officers walking through the trains, being at the platforms [and] being able to talk to people and identify where the crime is actually taking place.”
Five of the six crime categories — murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary and grand larceny — that were outlined in the Feb. 18 CompStat report increased year-to-date.
Only rapes fell, going from one last year to none this year, the statistics show.
