NYC shootings spike — and arrests, summons plunge - New York Daily News
By: Rocco Parascandola (nydailynews. com)
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As gun mayhem soars across the city — taking the lives of innocent bystanders and injuring scores of people — cops have cut back on arrests and summonses of all kinds, NYPD data shows.
Amid violence that recalls the crack era of the 1980s and early 1990s, cops made 6,337 arrests in the 28 days leading up to Monday — down 62% from the 16,676 arrests made in the same period of 2019.
Arrests dropped off even more precipitously last week, when cops made 1,481 busts — down 68% from the same period in 2019.
Sixty people were shot last week, police data show — an increase of 253% over the 17 shooting victims reported in the same week in 2019.
But cops made just 21 arrests in gun cases — down 72% from the 74 arrests reported in the same week of 2019.
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Cops are also issuing fewer summonses of all kinds. They wrote 1,536 parking tickets last week — down 76% from the 6,271 they wrote the same week of 2019.
Police issued 4,082 summonses for other motor vehicle violations — down 79% from the 19,486 reported in the same week of 2019.
And they wrote just 279 summonses for small criminal violations, down 86% from the 2,017 they wrote the same week of 2019.
Arrests in the past month, during which gun violence recalled the crack era of the late 1980s and early 1990s, are down 62% compared to the same time last year. (Shutterstock)
The five police unions deny cops are engaging in a work slowdown. Instead, they blame Mayor de Blasio and the City Council for supporting law enforcement reforms they don't like.
"The de Blasio administration and City Council have both been clear: reduce arrests, reduce summonses," the unions said in a statement.
"They believe that such reductions indicate crime is down," the statement said. "New York City police officers are doing their jobs and following City Hall and the Council's orders."
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Police brass have also complained about City Hall's actions. "Handcuffing the police," is how Police Commissioner Dermot Shea put it during an interview Thursday on CNN.
Several officers told the Daily News that the reforms — which include cuts to the police department budget and a move to outlaw cops' use of chokeholds — hurt police morale.
"No one is doing anything," said a police supervisor in Brooklyn. "If there's probable cause we'll make an arrest. And we'll respond to any 911 call.
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"But as far as going the extra yard, that's not happening. Guys are not getting out of their cars. They're not going up to guys on corners."
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