Shootings surge in NYC amid disbanding of NYPD’s plainclothes anti-crime unit

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Shootings are surging this week in New York City, with 28 incidents and 38 victims reported since Monday — the day the NYPD disbanded its plainclothes anti-crime unit, The Post learned on Friday.

By comparison, the same week last year there were only 12 shootings for the entire week.

In the most recent reported shooting, at 4 p.m. Friday in East New York, Brooklyn, a 27-year-old man died of multiple gunshot wounds to his torso, face and leg in front of 640 Stanley Avenue.

A 17-year-old boy who was also shot there was in stable condition, police said.

“This is what the politicians wanted — no bail, nobody in Rikers, cops not arresting anyone,” one angry law enforcement source said Friday.

“All those things equal people walking around on the street with guns, shooting each other.”

The shooting spree includes at least four murders, sources told The Post.

One murder happened Monday at 10 p.m. on Franklin Avenue in The Bronx, where a 34-year-old man was fatally shot in the back and hip; a second shooting victim at that scene was hospitalized.

There was another slaying early Wednesday outside a Brooklyn party, where a Queens man, Jomo Glasgow, 35, was fatally shot in the torso in front of a house party on East 49th Street near Snyder Avenue.

The dying victim had managed to drag himself around the block before collapsing, police said. A second victim, a man in his 30s, was shot in the buttocks outside the same party.

Members of the NYPD’s anti-crime unit were reassigned to uniformed patrol duties on Monday — part of what Police Commissioner Dermot Shea called a “seismic” shift affecting some 600 cops.

The unit’s disbanding comes almost six years after one of its plainclothes cops killed Eric Garner with a chokehold, sparking the “I can’t breathe” rallying cry for police brutality protesters.

The week’s shootings include an incident from 3 a.m. Wednesday in Jamaica, Queens. A 29-year-old man there suffered a graze wound to the chest and a gunshot to the right shoulder.

On Thursday night alone, there were at least five shootings just in Brooklyn.

At 7:30 p.m. on Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York, a 30-year-old man was shot in the chin.

At 9:24 p.m. on East 93rd Street in Brownsville, a 36-year-old man was shot.

At 10:23 p.m. on Albany Avenue in Crown Heights, a 20-year-old man was shot in the arm and leg.

At 10:30 p.m. at Bushwick Avenue and Cornelia Street in Bushwick, a 27-year-old man was shot in the arm.

Just before midnight, at Marcus Garvey Boulevard and Gates Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a 20-year-old man was shot in the leg.

The shootings continued into the morning on Friday.

At 1:30 a.m., a 26-year-old man showed up at Jamaica Hospital in Queens with a gunshot wound to the right foot.

At 2:40 a.m. Friday on the Upper West Side, a 20-year-old man was shot in the left heel at the Wise Towers housing project on West 90th Street.

There have been 97 shootings this month so far, compared to 89 for the whole month of June last year.



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And the party is just getting started by the criminals ......I've watched documentaries of NYC from the 1970's & 1980's, it was crazy back then with all the crimes, etc......those days look like they're coming back.
 

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NYC sees staggering shooting numbers; top cops warn of 'storm on the horizon'


The New York Police Department has reported a staggering increase in shooting numbers, and injuries, as officials warn there’s “a storm on the horizon” – and say changes must be made.

An estimated 74 people were wounded in 55 shootings citywide from June 15 through Sunday night, an NYPD spokesperson said Monday morning. The department told Spectrum NY1 it saw 18 shootings for the same time period last year.

Those numbers include a 24-hour period on Saturday that recorded about two dozen shootings in that time frame, the spokesperson confirmed.

NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said Monday morning that skyrocketing shooting numbers are “just the latest symptom” of a much bigger problem.

“I hope I’m not the only one – it takes a long time to turn a ship – that sees the iceberg directly in front of us,” Shea told NY1 on Monday morning. “We’ve been trending this way for a while.”

Shea was featured on the show to discuss a recent chokehold incident that occurred in Queens over the weekend, which resulted in an officer being suspended without pay while the department further investigates the use of force.

But about halfway through the interview, Shea changed gears, noting that, in addition to the officer’s use of the chokehold, the “quality of life nexus” concerns him. He outlined the latest shooting numbers and stressed: “If people aren’t talking about it, they are going to be soon.

“We had a hundred shootings in May – first time we hit that number in probably five years. We were trending up before COVID hit on shooting,” he said. “The shame of this is I’ve been warning people since November or December that this is coming. A month or two ago, I told you that there is a storm on the horizon.”

Shea emphasized the need to have “hard conversations” about quality-of-life issues and said, “nearly every shooting” that occurred over the weekend involved marijuana, alcohol and dice games.

“We cannot step away from quality of life policing. And we also need to support our police officers that are out there doing a very difficult job,” he said. “We cannot expect the police to go out there and fix laws that are broken. We cannot stop our way out of this problem. We need bad people held accountable and right now we have a lack of accountability.”

Just Sunday, the NYPD’s Chief of Crime Control Strategies, who oversees crime statistics and trends in the city, told the New York Post the gun arrests that the police department has made are stalled because courts have been closed as a result of the pandemic.

“We have over 1,000 people that have been indicted on a gun-possession charge, where the cases are open, and they are walking around the streets of New York today,” Michael LiPetri told the Post.

Roughly 800 more people were charged with criminal possession of a weapon but have not yet been formally indicted.

“It’s gonna be a massive backlog,” LiPetri continued. “We’re concerned.”

As for the shooting numbers for the whole year, an estimated 17 percent were cases in which the shooter or the victim was a parolee, LaPetri told the Post.

“We’ve never seen a higher percentage of parolee-involved incidents with shootings,” he said, “since we’ve been tracking it in ’05.”



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No bail reform at its finest......gotta make you wonder why it was started this past Jan in NY?
 

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