NYPD COP: 'ONLY THE SQUIRRELS ARE SAFE' IN NYC

‘No neighborhood is safe,’ Crime up in nearly every NYC precinct

 

New York Post  

February 8, 2022

 

 

At least five NYPD Precincts have reported more than a 100 percent increase in crime so far in 2022

 

Nearly every single city police precinct has seen spikes in crime so far this year — including five in which the rate has doubled, according to the latest troubling NYPD statistics.

“No neighborhood is safe,” one Brooklyn cop warned Tuesday. “At this rate, we will lose the city by St. Patrick’s Day.”

The only precinct in Manhattan to not see its crime rate jump was the 22nd Precinct, the one covering Central Park.

 

Police investigate the scene of an MTA bus being hit by a stray bullet in Harlem on February 6, 2022

 

“Only the squirrels are safe,” another cop added wryly. “Tourists will never come back.”

Seventy-two out of the Big Apple’s 77 police precincts saw crime rise, leaving just five at 2021 levels or dipping below their figures for the same period a year earlier.

“The NYPD’s leaders are working around the clock, in tandem with their federal and state law enforcement partners, and with the city’s five district attorneys, to devise comprehensive crime fighting measures, build solid criminal cases, and achieve meaningful consequences for crimes that tear at the fabric of the city,” an NYPD spokesman said.