Crime in the Big Apple isn\u2019t \u201cdown\u201d no matter how many times you read those headlines \u2013 but the city\u2019s business community can\u2019t seem to let go of the fantasy, On The Money has learned.<\/p>\n
Leaders of our business class are touting declines of certain crimes<\/a> as proof that the city is safe for workers and entrepreneurs. And to be fair, it\u2019s partly true: Murders are down nearly 50% over the past 16 years, and almost 34% lower than they were just two years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n Shootings, meanwhile, are down around 27% from two years ago and down more than 50% since 2012, which would have been the final years of Mike Bloomberg\u2019s mayoral stint.<\/p>\n Crime in the Big Apple isn\u2019t \u201cdown\u201d no matter how many times you read those headlines \u2013 but the city\u2019s business community can\u2019t seem to let go of the fantasy. Jack Forbes \/ NY Post Design<\/p>\n But that\u2019s not the whole story. Felonious assault complaints are nearly 77% higher than 16 years ago, and about 1% higher than just two years back. Transit crime continues to escalate; it\u2019s 7% higher than 2010 and 1.2% over the past two years. While grand larceny has recently fallen, it\u2019s still 22% above its Bloomberg levels.<\/p>\n And here\u2019s where things get downright scary: Rapes are up 4.6% over the past year, and hate crimes more than 6%.<\/p>\n \t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCharles Gasparino<\/p>\n The contradiction was recently brought to my attention by a top litigator at a big Manhattan law firm who served in the Justice Department under George W. Bush and who knows his way around NYPD\u2019s so-called CompStat crime reports that get published weekly.<\/p>\n \u201cThe city also has two glaring problems: an epidemic of rape and hate crimes AKA criminal antisemitism,\u201d my source tells me. \u201cOver the past two years, rape is up more than 30%, and 73% since 2010.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYes, the murder rate has dramatically declined. Ditto shooting incidents,\u201d he added. \u201cBut those figures only tell part of the story.\u201d<\/p>\n Looking at the bright side of crime numbers is also a great way to persuade more businesses from fleeing to places where the homeless don\u2019t crowd our sidewalks. Lone Pine Press for NY Post<\/p>\n To be clear, I get why city business leaders are looking at the proverbial glass half filled. It\u2019s no fun running a company under the yoke of Zohran Mamdani\u2019s incompetent, socialist mayoralty that seeks to tax anything that moves to fund his ever-growing welfare state<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n