{"id":1422,"date":"2020-06-22T11:16:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T18:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2020-07-24T10:48:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T17:48:16","slug":"how-covid-19-contributes-to-nycs-spike-in-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1422","title":{"rendered":"How Covid Inmate Releases Contributes to NYC\u2019s Crime Spike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/nypd-new-york-city-shootings-crime\">Recent reports<\/a> from the New York City Police department tell of a sudden, staggering increase in violence and crime. The city has seen high numbers of shootings and injuries, as officials warn these incidents point to a \u201cstorm on the horizon\u201d that warrants immediate change.<\/p>\n<p>In the last week alone (June 15-June 22), an estimated 73 people were wounded in 53 shootings across the city, as compared to only 14 injured individuals and 12 incidents in the same period last year. \u00a0On Saturday alone, two dozen shootings occurred.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea points to the sudden rise in shootings as an indicator of a much larger problem. \u201cWe had a hundred shootings in May \u2013 first time we hit that number in probably five years. We are trending up before COVID hit on shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shea points to details surrounding the crime, including the presence of marijuana, alcohol, and dice games at \u201cnearly every shooting\u201d. He emphasizes the importance of having \u201chard conversations\u201d discussing quality of life issues, adding \u201cwe cannot step away from quality of life policing. We cannot expect the police to go out there and fix laws that are broken. We cannot stop our way out of this problem. We need bad people held accountable and right now we have a lack of accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/virus\/virusresponse.html\">recent release of inmates<\/a> from federal prisons due to COVID-19 only exacerbates the issue. \u00a0District attorneys in Brooklyn and New York took measures as early as mid-March to reduce jail admissions by releasing people charged with non-violent offenses, and began to stop actively prosecuting low-level, non-violent offenses.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of March, New York Governor Cuomo announced that up to 1,100 inmates in jails and prisons across the state could be released with community supervision. As of June 8<sup>th<\/sup>, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision reported that 898 individuals were released in light of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Lipetri, NYPD\u2019s Chief of Crime Control Strategies, reports that an estimated 17 percent of shooting cases this year involved a parolee as either the shooter or the victim. He adds \u201cWe\u2019ve never seen a higher percentage of parolee-involved incidents with shootings since we\u2019ve been tracking it in \u201905.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The virus poses issues with effectively prosecuting these criminals as well. Mr. Lipetri told the New York Post last week that gun arrests have been stalled because courts have been closed as a result of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Over 1,000 people indicted on a gun-possession charge continue to walk freely around New York City, while an addition 800 have been charged with criminal possession of a weapon but have not yet been formally indicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent reports from the New York City Police department tell of a sudden, staggering increase in violence and crime. The city has seen high numbers of shootings and injuries, as officials warn these incidents point to a \u201cstorm on the horizon\u201d that warrants immediate change. In the last week alone (June 15-June 22), an estimated 73 people were wounded in 53 shootings across the city, as compared to only 14 injured individuals and 12 incidents in the same period last year. \u00a0On Saturday alone, two dozen shootings occurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-sentencing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Covid Inmate Releases Contributes to NYC\u2019s Crime Spike - Crime &amp; Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1422\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Covid Inmate Releases Contributes to NYC\u2019s Crime Spike - Crime &amp; Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Recent reports from the New York City Police department tell of a sudden, staggering increase in violence and crime. 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