New York Metropolis is off to an inauspicious begin on the crime entrance in 2022. Index crimes—homicide, theft, rape, aggravated assault, housebreaking, automobile theft and grand larceny—rose by almost 40% in January in contrast with final yr. A number of high-profile violent crimes have shocked and outraged residents. 5 New York Metropolis Police Division officers had been shot in January, two of them fatally.
Mayor Eric Adams launched a complete plan late final month to handle the crime surge. He referred to as on Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state Legislature to rethink a few of the Empire State’s lately enacted criminal-justice reforms, bail reform specifically. To this point his pleas appear to have fallen on deaf ears.
