Concern Grows About Crime in NYC During Lockdown as Shootings Spike in Bklyn

By: Jared Evan

While we constantly hear that crime is at all time lows in NYC from local officials, however, there has been an increase in violence according to locals across NYC and an increase in shootings in Brooklyn

In the Bronx, the Citizens App, a phone application which alerts users of crime in the area, goes off all day, with reports of stabbings, people being jumped on the street, cell phone robberies, assaults, gang brawls and shootings.  The crime is incessant, yet our government officials tell us, things are wonderful.

Reports from colleagues who live in the expensive and hip Hell’s kitchen are downright frightening. W 42^nd Street Magazine, a local publication covering Hell’s kitchen and the theater district reported the following:

“It seemed fine because it was mostly empty. Then, as I was walking north, I saw a gentleman coming south. I started to cross the street, and he followed me. I started walking faster, he started walking faster. He was jogging towards me. It got to the point where he was within arm’s reach and I was kind of freaking out.”

“It was crazy. I was basically chased down, and if it were not for the fact that I spotted a police car and started to run towards it, undoubtedly, he would have taken my camera. There was no doubt in my mind,” she says. “I’ve never had an experience like that.”

“And the police officer? “They didn’t do a thing. They watched the whole thing happen. I looked him dead in the eyes as I was running towards him, stood next to his car, and he looked at me out the window. He didn’t roll the window down to be like, ‘Are you OK?’”

“It’s terrifying, the fact that we’re at a place now where we can’t even be out in broad daylight without feeling there’s some inherent risk.”

The expensive neighborhood which is home to the people who fuel Broadway has been overrun with homeless schizophrenics, and after de Blasio had a safe “shooting” up site, for junkies to safely use heroin, addicts nodding off on the floor, defecating on the floor and worse. This would not be so bad if it was the 1970’s and apartments in the area were $200 a month, but they are not they are $5000 a month for a small apartment. Hard working people deserve better.

To top it off the mayor released several violent felons from jail to prevent the spread of coronavirus in jails. One must wonder how violent felons are confused with nonviolent offenders when choosing who to release.

One person is dead, another wounded in two separate Brooklyn shootings last week in Brooklyn. AM NY reported. One in Sheepshead Bay, the other in Crown Heights.

On Mother’s Day two more were shot dead in Brooklyn., including an upcoming rap artist.

Brooklyn has seen a nearly 6 percent increase in gunplay and a 10.5 percent increase in shooting victims since March 16 compared with the same period last year, according to the latest statistics. In terms of numbers, that is two more shootings and four additional victims, the NY Post reported.

Most New Yorker’s believe the crime numbers are under reported, and they are probably correct. Install Citizen’s app into your phone and you will be amazed at what is going on in many neighborhoods in NYC. Meanwhile, New Yorkers are being arrested for small City Hall protests and for not wearing a mask. IF you dare to open up your business, an entire platoon of police will arrive at your store front. This is the dystopian world,  hard leftist leadership has brought New York.