Murder Rising at Alarming Rate
Murder rising at alarming rate, sending waves of fear throughout NYC’s most dangerous neighborhoods. The number of people shot citywide has gone up 4.5% from a year ago, jumping to 1,374.
The number of people wounded or killed by gunfire is up citywide, sending waves of fear through some of New York’s most dangerous neighborhoods.
NYPD statistics through the first nine months of the year show the number of murders has climbed 13.2% from the same period last year. There were 341 murders at this point last year compared with 386 through Sunday, according to the most recent data available.
Cops in the 75th Precinct in East New York, Brooklyn, have investigated 23 homicides this year – the most in the city.
Cyncerae Pough, 27, who lives in the neighborhood, is not surprised. “Every night all I hear is cop cars and ambulances,” said Pough, the mother of a 6-year-old girl. “I don’t come out of my house if I don’t have to.”
Bullets have been flying over the Bronx, too. There’s been an 18.3% spike in the borough.
In the 47th Precinct, which sits in the northern section of the Bronx, the number of murders is up 46.2%: Nineteen people have been killed in that precinct this year, up from 13 during the first three-quarters of 2009.
“It’s horrible,” said Elena Rodrigues, 25, a stay-at-home mom in Eastchester. “Way too many people have guns these days. Some people just don’t have no control.”
The murder rate is up 25.9% in Queens, 12.2% in Manhattan and 7.4% in Brooklyn – the borough which sports some of the city’s most crime-plagued neighborhoods.
Eighteen people have been murdered in Brooklyn’s 67th Precinct, unnerving longtime East Flatbush residents.
“People are not working, there are no jobs, so people are out on the street,” said Karen Brown, 48, a home health aide. “You aren’t even secure when you’re inside your own home.”
The number of people shot citywide has gone up 4.5% from a year ago, jumping from 1,315 to 1,374.
The uptick in murders comes after a year in which the city recorded 466 – the fewest number of slayings since the NYPD began keeping track in 1963.
Though the overall crime rate is down 1.5% citywide, primarily due to a 6.2% drop in grand larceny, most felony categories are up.
Rapes have increased 13.5% citywide, including a disturbing 45.1% jump in Manhattan. There have been seven rapes in Central Park this year. During the first nine months of last year, no one reported being raped in Central Park.
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By Kerry Burke, Andrew Phillips and Jonathan Lemire for the New York Daily News
awacs
Murder is significant, because it’s the one category that NYPD can’t game. Kinda hard to lose a dead body report :-) or classify it as something else.
go-ds right hand man
what was it during 1990
Mennzz
“It’s horrible,” said Elena Rodrigues, 25, a stay-at-home mom in Eastchester. “Way too many people have guns these days. Some people just don’t have no control.” …
Way too many people have guns? How about way too many people don’t have guns!. The only people who have guns are the criminals.
It goes like this. When you limit or take away and control guns that law abiding citizens own (or want to own), you basically make it amazingly easy for criminals to go rob, murder, etc, and the crime and murder rate goes ^^^UP! Smart eiy? No! Common Sense!
Here’s an example: Your a law abiding citizen, and your walking down the street, or in your home, or some place else, and all of a sudden, a criminal jumps out of nowhere with a gun or some other weapon, you would probably think, “Aha! I gotta call the police! Were’s the phone?”, while the criminal is just like ahh, who needs this, and shoots you, or something worse Chas Vesholom.
Now just imagine that if you had a gun in that situation, and you are a law abiding citizen, the criminal would probably just run off or might have been caught. The police don’t arrive in seconds, they arrive in minutes which they cant do anything about, so in that precious minutes, you would probably have been killed if you didn’t have a gun…
Now imagine if everyone who got robbed or killed had a gun, and they were a law abiding citizen, don’t you think the crime and death rate would lower? Imagine if every law abiding citizen in the world had a gun, the criminals and the low lives would be dead scared to rob or kill…
(Of course you would have to get training for the gun and kid safety courses, but isn’t that worth it? Criminals would be scared because they wouldn’t know who has a gun or not…)
If you use your brain and use common sense in life and not listen to the propaganda media, you’d probably be better for this world…
mashpias
We need our mashpias to advise us what to do. Only they know the answers
meir
when guns are outlawed only outlaws have guns
push for constitutional firearm carry for personal protection.
when everyone may carry the outlaws will not be so quick..
right article, wrong picture...
Just heard a report on the radio, while only 24% of the NYC population is black, 58% of murder victims are black. Then they had a sound bit about “black on black” violence. They’re afraid to call a spade a spade, they’re afraid to just come out and say it b’fayrush: “the majority of murderers are black”. Instead of a picture of handguns at the top of the article there should be a picture of young black men holding guns and knives. That may make some people uncomfortable (and Al Sharpton YM”S upset), but it would provide an accurate picture…
bring rudy back!!!
We need rudy back, he knew how to run this city and didn’t only try to rob its residence of their hard earned dollars…
To 3…
Very well said and explained….
To 4
That was my laugh of the day….