NYPD crime statistics present transit felonies and assaults are down, robberies are up as patrols enhance

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — There was one other violent assault on Tuesday afternoon on the subway, as NYPD crime statistics report yr up to now transit felonies are down 1.5 p.c and assaults are down 5.5 p.c.

A 27-year-old man was stabbed within the abdomen simply after midday on a southbound No. 4 practice on the Wall Road station.

He’s within the hospital in secure situation and the suspect cops say might have been a robber.

Robberies on transit are up 15 p.c up to now this yr, though cops are stepping up patrols within the transit system.

“My family takes the subway each single day and coworkers, I take heed to them. And that offers me a very good sense of the place and the place we have to go and the place we have to enhance,” NYPD Chief of Transit Joseph Gulotta stated.

Though transit felonies and assaults are down, robberies are up this yr, rising to 136 in comparison with 118 this time final yr.

Chief Gulotta attributes that rise to the unusually chilly climate this winter, however the NYPD is including an extra 175 officers underground, on high of the 750 added by the Governor.

“You possibly can see our officers on the trains inspecting trains, driving the trains. That is the important thing. We wish to night time we wish to ensure we have now officers on the practice the place we want them, the place the crimes are occurring,” Gulotta stated.

Crime statistics additionally present there have been three murders up to now this yr, in comparison with none initially of 2025.

On Saturday, police shot and killed a machete-wielding man on a subway platform at Grand Central Terminal after he stabbed three folks, and known as himself “Lucifer.”

“While you see that, it truly is an upsetting crime. However whenever you take a look at how we deployed and the way we have checked out crime, our officers have been proper proper there,” Gulotta stated.

However nonetheless, a narrative like that understandably scares some riders, significantly those that expertise day-to-day discomfort on trains.

“They advised me if I felt protected after they noticed folks stretched out alongside three seats. Loud music, smoking. The final sense of lawlessness that was occurring within the subway. In order that’s one of many issues we have actually labored on,” Gulotta stated.

Police say 2025 was the most secure yr on the subways since 2009 and hope to proceed that pattern this yr with this additional deployment of officers. The NYPD acknowledges that the notion of security is simply as necessary as the truth of it.

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