The Big Apple just kept getting bloodier yesterday, with at least eight more people struck by gunfire — three fatally — as NYPD statistics revealed a jaw-dropping jump in shootings over last year.
For a second day, Mayor Bloomberg tried to blame the violence on the “traditionally” high level of gunplay around the Fourth of July — but the stats belied his claim that last week was just business as usual on the increasingly mean streets of New York.
Those numbers show that there is an epidemic of shootings in Gotham.
For the period from July 2 until July 8, 77 people were shot in the city, compared with 60 for the same week last year — a 28.3 percent increase, according to the Police Department.
The number of “shooting incidents” in that same time period spiked nearly 32 percent — going from 47 last year to 62 last week.
Murders jumped to 21 last week, compared with 18 for the period last year — a 16.7 percent increase, according to the NYPD.
Year to date, 880 people have been shot in the city, compared with 803 for the same span in 2011 — a 9.5 percent hike. And shootings are up 12.1 percent over the same time last year — 733 incidents compared with 653.
(Source: NY Post)
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NYC is becoming like The OLd Wild West
I;m surprised he didn’t try blaming it on the weather this time. Or on the stop and frisks. Or the big gulps from 7-11.
It’s ridiculous that theres always an excuse why the crime rates go up. But when the crime rates go down, there’s no “excuse”, it can only be because the cops are doing great jobs. Never is it blamed on the weather, receding population in NY or any other possible “excuse”.
#1, The old “Wild West” was quite peaceful. People went about armed, and “an armed society is a polite society”.