Serious Crimes in NYC Hit 2-Decade High as Mayor Boasts Nation’s ‘Safest Big City’

Murder, rape, robbery, assault, car theft, grand larceny, and burglary spiked in 2023 to their highest levels since 2006, according to police data.

NYPD officers stand aboard a train at the West Fourth Street subway station, in New York, on Jan. 13, 2024. Peter K. Afriyie/AP Photo, File

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.