CONSEQUENCES OF NYC ANTI-POLICE PROTESTS

NYC murders have increased by 70 percent since unrest began and shootings in the Big Apple have more than doubled

Daily Mail
June 20, 2020

Violent crime is on the rise in New York City, according to new statistics released by the NYPD on Thursday.

In May, overall crime was down when compared with the same month last year, but the number of murders, shootings and robberies have soared.

Robberies were up 34 percent in May 2020, while murders increased an astronomical 79 percent.

Meanwhile, shootings soared 64 percent in May - and it doesn't appear to be a brief spike sparked by a brief period of unrest.

A report in The New York Post shows shootings are still surging into June.

This week, there have been 28 reported shootings in New York City - up from 12 shootings recorded across the exact same period last year.

It comes after the NYPD plainclothes anti-crime unit was disbanded, and those specialists were reassigned to 'uniform patrol duties'.

As in D.C., New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is promising a suite of reforms for the nation's larges police department, including a shifting of funding from the NYPD to youth and social services.

'This is what the politicians wanted — no bail, nobody in Rikers, cops not arresting anyone. All those things equal people walking around on the street with guns, shooting each other,' one irate officer anonymously told The Post on Friday.

Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch told the Post that New York cops 'have reached the breaking point.'

'Over the past few weeks, we have been attacked in the streets, demonized in the media and denigrated by practically every politician in this city,' Lynch said.

'Now we are facing the possibility of being arrested any time we go out to do our job.'

More than 350 officers have been injured in recent weeks, as some protests have descended into rioting and violence.