Sure they have a problem, but they need perspective. NYC carjackings continue to spike, NYPD stats show
“New York has become carjack city,” one NYPD official told The Post. “Between the guns and the low-risk of stealing cars, we’ve seen this explosion in carjackings.”
From 2018 to last year, carjackings in the five boroughs shot up 355 percent — led by a staggering 4,400-percent jump in the NYPD’s Manhattan North borough command and increases of more than 400 percent in the Bronx and Brooklyn North commands, the statistics show.
Percentages can be both informative, and misleading. Sure, NYC has a growing problem with carjackings. The raw numbers are more interesting. There were 510 NYC carjacking in 2021, 328 in 2020, and 112 in 2018. (No data was provided for 2019.)
By comparison, Chicago had 1,848 carjackings in 2021, 1,413 in 2020, and 775 in 2018. I would say that calls into question NYC's claim to being carjack city. [Update: Fixed the year for 2020, and provided a link.]
Judges cannot set bail for defendants charged with car theft under New York’s criminal justice reform law. But carjackers are typically charged with first- or second-degree robbery, which is still eligible for bail in the Empire State.
Still, I wonder what the new Manhattan non-prosecutor will do about carjacking. He says not prosecuting crime will make the people of New York safer.
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