New York City experienced an unprecedented surge in serious crime last year, according to internal NYPD data, an apparent contradiction of Mayor Eric Adams’s continued claims that “crime is down” in the city.
In 2023, the city was hit with a historic spike in assaults, which numbered 27,591, an increase of 6.7 percent and the most since the city first began tracking the data, according to the police department’s rolling report first obtained by the New York Post.
Matthew Lysiak
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Matthew Lysiak is a nationally recognized journalist and author of “Newtown” (Simon and Schuster), “Breakthrough” (Harper Collins), and “The Drudge Revolution.” The story of his family is the subject of the series “Home Before Dark” which premiered April 3 on Apple TV Plus.
