Republicans have raised the alarm about a migrant crime wave. Nationally, crime is down even as immigration has surged, but the concerns are real in some neighborhoods.
Police arrest an alleged thief, not shown, on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, New York. The neighborhood has seen a jump in robbery over the past year. Many residents blame migrants, but this suspect was American.
NPR talked to more than 20 people along this commercial strip, and they all said their impression was that crime has gone up in the last year. It's a trend that is reflected in the statistics. According to the, crime in this precinct is up more than 15% in the first four months of this year compared to the same period last year, while it's down in the city as a whole. Robbery is up more than 40% in the first four months of this year compared with the same period last year.
Jack Donohue, who worked for the NYPD for 32 years and is now a senior fellow at the Center on Policing at Rutgers University, calls the rise in crime in that neighborhood"substantial," but he says you can't automatically blame the migrants. Meanwhile, the question of migrant crime in New York City has become politically charged, as local news reports focus on migrants
"The boy stabbed me on the left side, in the breast," she says. She says the kid had an Ecuadorian accent."It's way too dangerous around there," she says."There are people who are doing things that don't fit with why we came to this country." "Making cases against the migrants, it's just very frustrating," says Christopher Flanagan, a retired NYPD detective who was commander for major cases. He says that migrants typically don't have the local roots and associations that investigators rely on and that there's often no criminal record available from the country of origin.
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