Crime ticked again upward, albeit barely, throughout New York Metropolis throughout January 2023 after ending 2022 with a December decline in main felonies, the NYPD reported on Friday night.
January noticed a 4.1% improve in the seven main crime classes (homicide, rape, theft, felony assault, grand larceny, housebreaking, auto theft) from a 12 months prior, with 10,067 crimes reported in the course of the interval. Shootings and murders, nonetheless, have been nonetheless down for the interval, which the NYPD credit to an “enhanced public safety investment across each borough, in every neighborhood.”
Shootings plunged in January 2023 by 26.3, from 99 incidents reported on the similar time in 2022 to 73 this 12 months. Accordingly, the number of capturing victims additionally fell by 21.8%, from 110 to 86. The NYPD mentioned the reductions are a outcome of efforts to drive down gun exercise in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan.
The homicide decline was extra slight — a 3.2% drop, with one much less murder reported in January 2023 (30) than in 2022 (31).
January 2023, nonetheless, denied the NYPD three straight months of reported crime declines. After 10 months of will increase, November 2022 was the primary month that the division catalogued a drop in crime (1.3%), and adopted up with a fair higher December, throughout which main felonies decreased by 11.6%.
Fueling the rise, police mentioned, was a spike in felony assaults, which jumped 14.9%, from 1,790 such incidents in January 2022 to 2,056 final month. No different crime class had a double-digit share improve.
The full number of main crimes reported in January (10,067) was barely decrease than the December 2022 complete (10,164).
Total, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell appeared inspired that the NYPD continues to make nice strides in turning again the tide towards crime after many months of will increase in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic’s peak.
“As we step forward through 2023 and beyond, the women and men of the New York City Police Department are continuing to effectively and efficiently suppress violence, address the drivers of crime, and safeguard our streets and our subways,” mentioned Sewell in an announcement. “Extra work, nonetheless, is required in the case of sure classes of crime, and we’re decided in our efforts to reverse these tendencies. Everybody who lives, works, and visits our nice metropolis deserves to be protected, and the members of the NYPD will tolerate nothing much less.
January 2023 crime report highlights
- Arrests for total index crimes reached a 24-year excessive in January — up 29.6 from January 2022 alone, with 4,420 collars reported final month. The town hasn’t seen such excessive arrests numbers since 1999, in keeping with the NYPD.
- Transit crimes plunged 29.3%, which the NYPD mentioned is the outcome of the NYPD’s surge in cops in the subway system. The largest reductions have been in transit-related grand larcenies (down 44.3%, from 97 to 54) and robberies (down 20.7%, from 58 to 46).
- Hate crimes have been flat, with 35 incidents reported in January, the identical number from the identical month in 2022.