Crime rates soar across NYPD districts: No community is safe

　　Crime rates soar across NYPD districts, police officers: No neighborhood is safe

　　Overseas Network, February 9. According to the "New York Post" report on the 8th, the latest statistics from the New York Police Department show that the crime rate in almost every district of the New York City Police Department is soaring, and the crime rate in five districts has increased by one. times.

　　The crime rate rose in 72 of New York's 77 police precincts between Jan. 1 and Feb. 6, and only five had the same crime rate as in 2021.

The precinct in Elmhurst, Queens, had the highest crime rate, up more than 142 percent from 2021.

The largest increase in the type of cases in the region was grand theft, with 197 in 2022 compared to 43 in the same period in 2021; major assaults rose from 28 to 59 and robberies rose from 18 to 30.

　　On February 8, local time, a Brooklyn police officer warned that "no community is safe, and at this rate, we will lose the city by St. Patrick's Day (March 17)." The only one in Manhattan One police department that hasn't seen an uptick in crime is the 22nd Precinct in charge of Central Park, another quipped, "Only squirrels are safe, tourists never come back."

　　A New York building contractor has blamed the poor economy for rising crime, and the father of four said rent and diapers are rising, but wages are not.

His family is about to move out of New York to Suffolk County on Long Island.

(Overseas Network/Li Fang Internship Compilation/Li Jiangshan)