Democrats blame guns as crime rates soar in nearly every NYC precinct

Crime rates have skyrocketed across New York City and nearly every police precinct has witnessed spikes in delinquency so far this year, including five in which the rate has doubled, according to NYPD data.

“No neighborhood is safe,” one Brooklyn police officer warned on Tuesday. “At this rate, we will lose the city by St. Patrick’s Day.”

Seventy-two out of the city’s 77 police precincts saw crime rise, leaving just five at or below 2021 levels, the New York Post reported.

According to NYPD CompStat data, the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst, Queens, was the hardest hit area and crime has increased by more than 142% over the last year – with the biggest percentage hikes being seen for felony assaults and robberies.

Coming in second on the list of increased crime is Harlem’s 26th Precinct, which reported a 122% increase in incidents so far in 2022, primarily due to increases in burglaries, grand larceny and assaults.

Last weekend, an off-duty NYPD cop was shot and wounded in the neighborhood.

“I think it’s crazy,” said Harlem resident Elizabeth Jenkins. “It’s a lot of fear because it’s all over the place, and right here, it’s really bad.”

Jenkins attributed the growing criminality on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s soft-on-crime approach which favors reduced sentences and bail.

“I think he’s not good,” she said. “He’s not good on crime as far as I can see. He can do better. There’s a lot of crime, and he’s not really dong anything about it.”

But while Bragg admitted on Tuesday that Harlem “is in the middle of a crisis,” he doubled down on his current approach and announced his administration will focus on taking more guns off the streets.

Last week, Tina Forte, the Republican challenger to Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced that she is running against the "woke policies" that she believes are fueling a rise in violent crime in the Big Apple.

Forte, who was born and raised in Throggs Neck in the Bronx, said that "New York is a mess" and blamed the rise in New York City's violent crime on the new mayor and district attorney.

"They're blaming the guns right away, they're not blaming the woke policies,” she noted.

"They're not blaming the bail reform, they're not blaming letting the violent criminals back out," she said, emphasizing that government officials just "want to blame the guns." 

"It's the people committing the crimes, okay?" she said. "People are being thrown in front of trains, people being slashed. There's a lot of crime in New York — carjacking, deaths, everything that just keeps rising and rising, and [the mayor] wants to come out, and they want to make speeches about gun control."