New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo revealed that murders in New York City shot up 47% from 2019 to 2020 and a staggering 70% of the shots went unresolved.
Cuomo spent time discussing crimes in New York City during the COVID briefing on Friday morning, citing numbers in the context of the upcoming mayoral race.
“Crime in New York City is a major problem,” Cuomo said.
He then cited alarming statistics on the crime rate in the city, noting that murders increased by 47% from 2019 to 2020.
New York City’s crime wave in 2020 led to a 47% increase in murders
The NYPD reported 468 murders in 2020 after reporting only 319 murders in 2019, an increase of 46.7 percent.
The 468 murders in 2020 were the highest in the city 515 murders were recorded in 2011.
Cuomo also stated that more than 92 percent of the shooting victims during the previous year are black or Hispanic, again for the communities that suffered from the COVID-19 crisis.
Cuomo also seemed to be aiming for the NYPD, saying that 70% [of shootings] they are not resolved. ‘
Gov. Andrew Cuomo discussed New York City crime numbers in a briefing Friday
Cuomo also cited crime as a “major problem” before reminding the city of the April 1 deadline to adopt a police reform plan following the assassination of George Floyd and the consequent unrest.
In addition, Cuomo discussed the dangers of the homeless population, including an anecdote from a school that suffered a blow to the subway by a homeless person.
Recently, several people were stabbed and two were killed by a homeless man on the subway, causing 644 officers to be deployed underground in New York.
The metro agency in charge of the metro, however, expected to see 1,500 agents deployed in the metro.
“It’s up to them what they do,” said Cuomo, who put the responsibility on the mayor and New York City to reduce crime, rather than the state.
Following the unrest caused by the assassination of George Floyd, Cuomo issued guidelines calling for statewide police reform, with plans to be adopted on April 1 to receive state funding.
“We need to address the tensions and lack of trust between our communities and the law enforcement agencies that serve them,” Cuomo said in June.
“It simply came to our notice then. I understand that it is difficult. But people die. New Yorkers are not running away from a crisis: it is a time of leadership and action. Local elected officials need to work together with the community and its police forces to develop and implement reforms to achieve a safer and fairer police standard.
Cuomo was quick to point out in his briefing that April 1 is just 41 days away.
Another Cuomo data was that 92% of shooting victims were black or Hispanic
Not all news about the crime front in New York City was bad in 2020.
For the seventh year in a row, serious crime in the city fell, although the fall from 2019 was marginal, with only 13 fewer crimes recorded in 2020.
The new year began with augury for crime in the city, as murders increased by 125% during the first ten days of 2021 a year ago.
Since then, however, reports of major crimes such as murders have begun to fade in the city.
During Valentine’s Day, there were 38 murders in New York City, down 11.6% from last year.
Although the murder rate rose 47% last year, there was a drop in crime rates.
Murders in New York increased by 125% in the first ten days of 2021 compared to the same period in 2020
Rapes, robberies, assaults for crimes, robberies and cases of poaching have also decreased since that time a year ago, all by double digits, with the exception of burglaries (9.8%).
The only felony that increased so far a year ago is that of the grand act of theft, which has increased by 9.9 percent over last year.
Mayoral candidates continue to clarify their messages about crime, but with the Democratic primaries just four months away, patterns are emerging.
The New York Times reports that many of the top candidates have been avoiding calls to defuse police, although City Controller Scott Stringer used the expression before changing his message to backtrack from that stance.