Police officials in New York are on the hunt for a group of three teenage boys that are currently suspected of recently stealing a scooter from a six-year-old girl with at least one member of the group of suspects assaulting the young child by punching her in the chest multiple times during the attack.
As stated in a recent report issued by the New York Police Department (NYPD), the assault happened on the 28th of July. the scooter was stated to be valued at $30.00. The three teenagers seen in the security footage issued by police officials appeared to be black. The NYPD is asking for help from the general public in finding the suspects.
What seems to be an apparent mugging is just the most recent crime that has taken place in New York City. As reported by the NYPD, the arrests for major felonies “are up nearly 29% so far in calendar 2022, compared with the first seven months of 2021.”
“We know that any crime increase in our city is wholly unacceptable,” expressed Keechant L Sewell, the NYPD Commissioner, in a released statement. “Everyone who lives, works, and visits here deserves to be safe, and the members of the NYPD will tolerate nothing less – but we cannot do it alone.”
Sewell wholly put the blame for the increase in crime on the prevalence of illegal firearms along with the faults within the overall criminal justice system.
“When violent criminals are willing to carry illegal guns on our streets and brazenly shoot at innocent people, they must face real consequences,” commented Sewell. “And when rampant, revolving-door recidivism erodes the public’s trust in the criminal justice system, we must make efforts to refocus that system on what matters most: the victims. All of us need to be pulling in the same direction, so that we can best deliver on the public-safety promise we make to every New Yorker, every day.”
Eric Adams, the Democrat Mayor of New York City, first ran for election back in 2021 under the promise that he would be increasingly hard on crime. Just this past week, one journalist questioned Adams about when that particular campaign pledge would actually come to fruition.
“When will we expect crime to drop?” stated the journalist. “You’ve been in office seven months; you ran on a platform of lowering crime. When we can expect to see those decreases in crime?”
Adams made the claim that his administration was doing everything in its power in order to reduce violence, but that the public needed to step up and help out with the process as much as he is.
“When we get all our partners on board. We’re doing our job,” he explained. “And we also need the public on board.”
“The public must really — as they have indicated in polling — that public safety is a major issue … we’re doing our job,” he stated in what seemed to be exasperation.
“NYPD is taking thousands of guns off the streets. We are making arrests. [There are] a high level of arrests for violent crimes. You’re seeing with that — that which is in our span of control, we’re doing it to the maximum,” he answered.
Watch the back-and-forth here: