Crime
A man in a wheelchair goes on a stabbing spree in New York
A man in a wheelchair allegedly stabbed two victims, each in their 60s, on March 16, in response to the New York Police Department. After these initial attacks, the man allegedly stabbed a 35-year-old… elderly man in the chest, who later sought treatment at Mt. Sinai Queens Hospital in Queens, New York. He is then accused of stabbing a 46-year-old woman who arrived on the police station with a laceration on her forearm.
According to reports, video caught on the Citizen app shows five law enforcement officials surrounding a man in a wheelchair and detaining him. According to the NYPD, the man is currently in police custody. All of the man’s victims survived their encounters, were treated at local medical facilities and released. According to the NYPD, a full investigation is ongoing.
Although all the man’s victims are adults, in 2023 Homicides of young people have skyrocketed in New York. According to the New York Police Department, the 467 minors stabbed in town represent a 48% increase from 2022. This explosion in the defined population was paired with a 6% increase in victims of all ages, it said.
New York Mayor Eric Adams told the outlet that he believed the rise in stabbings amongst young people was attributable to the crackdown on the gun trade. “I feel there may be a combination of things that give solution to pushes. First, the police have done an incredible job cracking down on guns. “I believe over 13,000 people have been removed from our streets and, as you know, some young people have taken to using knives.”
However NYPD CompStat tracking device There is not any separate statistical category for stabbings, but since 2023, crimes and misdemeanors in New York have increased by almost 2%. Possibly a few of them could involve stabbings, but without a clear definition it’s unimaginable to know of course.
According to the Council on Criminal Justice, an independent nonprofit criminal justice think tank, in its: study of crime trends in 38 US citiesthe council said that in 2023, “Overall, crime rates are largely returning to pre-Covid-19 levels because the nation moves away from the height of the pandemic, but there are notable exceptions. While the decline in homicide rates in the cities surveyed (and lots of other cities) is encouraging, progress has been uneven, and other sources of crime information, including household surveys of violent victimization, show higher rates and more pronounced changes than reports to law enforcement.” .
The council said crime doesn’t occur in a vacuum but is commonly linked to social and economic forces. They also called on leaders to implement strategies which have been proven to cut back violent crime.
“In short, criminal trends do not emerge in isolation from broader social and economic forces, but they are also not immune to short-term intervention. There are many strategies that do not require new laws or large new public spending that can reliably and sustainably reduce crime. Leaders in the public and private sectors should redouble their efforts to implement these approaches.”