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New York City Mayor Eric Adams said last week that his administration will need more time to get a handle on crime in the city after major crime increased 36.5 percent in March compared to 2021.
The NYPD said Wednesday that homicides in the city fell, but robberies and burglaries both increased by 48.4 percent and 40 percent, respectively.
“Individuals that continue to get arrested multiple times continue to commit these crimes,” Michael Lipetri, chief of crime control strategies, said.
The NYPD said the overall crime index increased by 36.5 percent in March 2022, compared to the same period a year ago (9,873 v. 7,232). The number was “driven by a 59.4 percent increase in grand larceny auto (1,044 v. 655), a 48.4 percent increase in robbery (1,267 v. 854), and a 40.5 percent increase in grand larceny (4,078 v. 2,902).
Citywide burglaries also increased by 40 percent (1,326 v. 947) in March 2022 compared to last year.”
Keechant Sewell, the police commissioner, told reporters that the city is “facing a perception among criminals that there are no consequences even among serious crime.”
(See “COVID WAVE OF ORGANIZED RETAIL THEFT CONTINUES,” “COVID WAR: ORGANIZED THIEVES GROW BOLDER” and “COVID CRIME WAVE SPIKES, DRUG STORES CLOSE.”)
Adams said he promised to put into place a specialized unit focused on gun crimes and that it will take more time before any decrease will be seen in crime statistics.
“A couple of things we need to do: we must analyze the manpower of the police department. Too many police officers are doing civilian jobs,” Adams said about police on desk duty. “I need them back in the street, we need them to do the jobs New Yorkers hired them for. Let civilians do civilian jobs.”
This is old news to Trends Journal subscribers who read History Before it Happens®. When the COVID War broke out we had forecast a sharp spike in crime.
TREND FORECAST: When the COVID War began we warned there would be sharp spikes in crime, since, as Gerald Celente says, “When people lose everything and have nothing left to lose, they lose it,” and especially in areas where prosecutors encourage the problem by being deliberately soft on crime.
As inflation and the various stresses brought on by the COVID War continue (and increase), so, too, will crime (and drug use, and mental illness, homelessness, and public nuisance behaviors).
And the problem is worldwide. As we had forecast, thanks to the draconian COVID War measures imposed on populations by politicians, a bad situation has become much worse.
According to the charity group Oxfam International, some 860 million people will be living below the $1.90 a day line by the end of 2022. This is 263 million more people that are suffering poverty than the projection they made before the COVID War was launched in 2020.
TREND FORECAST: Yes, the COVID War has killed hundreds of millions of more lives and livelihoods than the virus.
Get ready for the New World Disorder, as people across the globe take to the streets in protest of lack of basic living standards, government corruption, crime and violence.
As nations decline and social unrest intensifies, so too will immigration as people do all they can to escape for their lives.
In response, there will be strong populist, anti-immigration and anti-establishment political movements in richer nations where refugees seek safe-haven.