The NYPD pointed out in a press release Friday simply how crime-riddled the town is, saying the grim statistics present how the Big Apple’s dangerous guys now not worry getting caught.
Citywide shootings surged 13.4% in July in comparison with the identical month final yr, and murders elevated an much more alarming 34.3%, in keeping with the division.
The total charge of main crimes additionally rose 30.5%, pushed partially by a 40.6% surge in grand larcenies.
“Usually they’re spinning the numbers to make the dangerous look good,” an astounded Queens cop stated.
A Manhattan cop requested sarcastically, “Why doesn’t the Police Department simply increase the white flag?”
The newest alarming figures emerged amid Mayor Adams’ ongoing battle to persuade Albany lawmakers to roll back the state’s controversial 2010 bail reform regulation.
As a part of that effort, the NYPD this week released a “Worst of the Worst” list of repeat offenders, led by an ex-con with 101 arrests, together with 88 busts that got here after bail reform took impact in 2020.
“Everyone who lives, works, and visits right here deserves to be protected, and the members of the NYPD will tolerate nothing much less – however we can not do it alone,” Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell stated in a ready assertion Friday.
“When violent criminals are keen to hold unlawful weapons on our streets and openly shoot at harmless individuals, they need to face actual penalties.”
A veteran cop stated of Friday’s press launch, “They’re principally shouting out that they need assistance.
“We don’t have sufficient cops, and the criminals are getting proper again out onto the road and committing crimes.”


Sources instructed The Post that six individuals have been wounded by gunfire Friday in six incidents throughout the town in fewer than 12 hours, starting shortly after midnight.
The victims, all males, ranged in age from 16 to 29, and the shootings came about in Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens and Staten Island, sources stated.
-Additional reporting by Bruce Golding