New York City's wealthiest neighborhood is grappling with a spike in armed robberies, new data reveals.
Manhattan's Upper East Side has seen 27 robberies over the past four weeks - a 286 percent increase when compared to the same period last year, according to the NYPD.
Alarmingly, a significant number of those have involved locals being held up at gunpoint.
For the entirety of 2019, the Upper East Side only reported four armed robberies. This year, 14 have already been reported.
The figures are causing alarm in the ritzy neighborhood, where residents boast an average annual income of $322,400.
The Upper East Side is also known for its high concentration of billionaires - and some of the crimes have taken place just feet from their lavish residences.
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10 comments:
Blame the Democrats !!!
Good look at what you elected to make those choices for you! Live with your error!
Good. They deserve to live with this. Voting has consequences and when you vote democrat you will pay with unsafe streets.
Say it ain’t sooo. Those cops aren’t doing their duties. Maybe take the remaining half of their budget and hire some more social workers. They have been know to break up domestics, take down (without kneeing) fleeing felons, and do traffic stops at the same time. All without those bad firearms. This too shall pass.
I bet that's got em' woke the F up. Hahaha!
Nobody cares. These are the same libutard elites who just love BLM.
Civil unrest is coming folks!!!! Also did you hear NY just put up and is enforcing starting today, mandatory check points in to the city via bridges and tunnels? Says you have to give information, give addresses, and other stuff to where you are going and they will check on you and if you don't answer the will come to the place you said you would be!!!!
They will drive out the wealthy with over-taxing and kill the poor with crime.
I just hope those fleeing the mess don't come here, we don't need that crap!
Right 7:38, social workers are going to stop robberies. Drink some more of that liberal cool aid. Maybe even offer some to the future thug that violates YOU !!!
That is called "KARMA". If they think the rich are going to be excluded from these marxist guess again. Who they going to call. Got rid of the cops, guess they will have to call "GHOST BUSTERS"
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