Mayor Adams, a former cop who ran a public safety platform, repeatedly dismissed concerns of crime as a “perception” created by the city’s media.
While murders did drop significantly — which the NYPD attributed to a reduction in shootings — every other category of major crimes saw an increase, with 2022 ending with 126,588 serious offenses, a 22.4% jump from the year prior, the data shows.“The end-of-year numbers are horrible like you can’t get like there’s no way to get around that,” Hermann said., with a 4.
“There has always been an escalation of violence with regard to domestic violence. Those things you know, certainly do matter.” “It makes me sad considering how much potential the city has, but it’s just going the wrong way, year-after-year, in terms of quality of life,” he said. “I’m often looking over my shoulder when walking down the streets regardless of the time of day.”
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