補佐官は、周りの2人の容疑者に逮捕されたとき、元ブルックリン海軍工廠の近くを歩いていました。 10:30 午前, ニューヨークポストによると.
“あなたはこれをしたくない. 私は市長のために働いています,” 補佐官, identified as 33-year-old Christopher Baugh, informed the robbers, a law enforcement source told the Post.
New York Mayor Eric Adams is joined by NYPD Deputy Chief Jason Savino (左) and NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig at a Brooklyn police facility where it was announced that arrests have been made against violent street gangs. (スペンサープラット/ゲッティイメージズ)
One of the suspects lifted his shirt to display the butt of a gun tucked in his waistband and they made off with the victim’s city-issued cell phone and wallet, 投稿によると.
NEW YORK CITY MAYOR ERIC ADAMS TO APPOINT ‘GUN VIOLENCE CZAR’ AS SHOOTINGS, KILLINGS PERSIST
The Mayor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday evening.
There have been 8,314 robberies throughout New York City so far this year, A 39.7% increase over the same time frame in 2021, according to NYPD data.
Car thefts are up 46.7%, grand larceny is up 49.4%, burglaries are up 33.6%, assaults have surged 19.3%, and rapes are up 13.1%. The only major crime index that has fallen this year is murder, which has dropped 9.9% after an unusually bloody 2021.
NYPD officers wear masks in Times Square. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)
The crime wave isn’t lost on New Yorkers, なので 76% of city residents said they were concerned that they could be a victim of a violent crime in a Siena College poll last month.
アダムス, a former NYPD captain who ran on a tough-on-crime platform, 前記 the level of crime in the city took him by surprise in his first six months in office.
“Let me tell you something: When I started looking into this, I was shocked at how bad this place is,” he told the New York Post while riding the subway system on June 27.
