New NYPD statistics show shocking crime increase in Manhattan’s 6th Precinct

NEW YORK — It’s a distinction no neighborhood needs in New York City. Manhattan’s 6th Precinct, which incorporates the West Village and Greenwich Village, has seen the most important spike in crime in the 5 boroughs.

CBS2’s Andrea Grymes spoke with residents and enterprise homeowners on Thursday.

At New University Pen & Stationery on Bleecker Street, proprietor Muhammed Akmal has grown used to shoplifters.

“Sometimes they come two, three times a day. Sometimes they don’t show up like two, three days, at least once a week, always something happens,” Akmal mentioned.

At least as soon as per week — and he is not alone.

The newest NYPD statistics show shoplifting and grand larcenies are serving to to gasoline an enormous increase in crime in the 6th Precinct, which incorporates the fashionable neighborhoods of the West Village and Greenwich Village, together with Washington Square Park, the place one man appeared to be bathing in the fountain on Thursday afternoon.

Among all 77 NYPD precincts, the 6th has seen the most important spike in felony crime — an 80.2 p.c increase — in comparison with the identical interval final 12 months.

“I can see that. It’s a drag because I don’t even go out at night anymore and that’s not me,” one resident mentioned.

“Wow,” one other resident mentioned, including when requested if the numbers are startling, “Yeah it does. It does surprise me.”

The newest numbers show in the 6th:

• Burglaries are up 119 p.c
• Grand larcenies are up greater than one hundred pc
• Car thefts are up 39 p.c
• Robberies are up 45 p.c
• Rapes are up practically 43 p.c

There have been two murders up to now this 12 months, in comparison with none throughout the identical interval final 12 months.

The glimmer of fine news is felony assaults are down practically 4 p.c.

“There are some real criminals in the streets. Let’s face the facts, alright?” enterprise proprietor Jamal Alnasr mentioned.

Alnasr owns Village Revival data” in Greenwich Village. He said he rarely calls the police because, it seems, anything goes these days.

“We must implement some legal guidelines somewhat more durable, I suppose,” he mentioned.

CBS2 did attain out to the NYPD for touch upon these crime stats, however didn’t hear again. The numbers do show that whereas crime is up in the 6th Precinct, arrests, are up, too, by some 40 p.c.