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Published Jan. 3, 2024, 3:37 p.m. ET
Car thefts in the Big Apple have surged a staggering 191% compared to before the COVID pandemic, according to NYPD data released Wednesday — as Mayor Eric Adams declared that “crime is down” and New York City had turned a corner.
A total of 15,802 vehicles were ripped off across the five boroughs through Dec. 31, an alarming uptick from the 5,438 stolen back in 2019, according to the year-end review of crime statistics.
Ten teens were charged on Monday in a string of carjackings in Washington, D.C., authorities said, amid what law enforcement calls a sharp rise in the crime in the nation’s capital.
The 10 suspects are believed to be involved in two separate carjacking rings in D.C., authorities said: The teens, who are being charged as adults, are allegedly responsible for at least 15 vehicle thefts and held victims at gunpoint, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Matthew Graves, said at a news conference.
Keep Reading: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/10-teens-accused-dc-carjacking-rings-claiming-grand/story?id=105561158
A 4-year-old boy was fatally shot in front of his parents in what Southern California authorities described as an “unimaginable” road rage incident involving two suspects who allegedly chased down the victim’s family and unleashed a barrage of gunfire on their vehicle.
The fatal shooting occurred Friday night in Los Angeles County after the assailants allegedly cut off the family’s car on a highway in Lancaster, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Keep reading: https://abc7chicago.com/4-year-old-shot-in-road-rage-shooting-child-killed/14197511/
With protesters descending on the Hamptons this summer, rich New Yorkers with second homes on the East End are looking for more protection than just their hedges.
Wealthy Hamptonites are rushing to hire security guards to keep them safe from the threat of unrest, The Post has learned.
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Fifteen people were killed and at least 89 others were wounded in citywide gun violence over Father’s Day weekend, marking the most shootings in a single weekend this year.
A toddler and four teenagers were among those shot to death between Friday evening and Monday morning, according to data maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times. Seven other juveniles were also struck by gunfire.
Bullets are whizzing around New York this month at a rate not seen in nearly a quarter-century, according to the NYPD — and police sources warned that the recent rate of gunplay may be the new normal.
Through the first three weeks of June, which came to a close Sunday, city streets echoed with 125 shooting incidents, Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri told The Post on Monday.
Two men were found fatally shot in a luxury car parked on a Bronx street early Thursday in what appears to be a double execution, officials said.
Cops responding to a 911 call about a large, rowdy group Sedgwick Ave. just off the Major Deegan Expressway near Depot Place in Highbridge about 1 a.m. made a grim discovery: two men found dead inside a 2017 Mercedes Benz.
Both men were shot in the head, with at least one shot in the back of the head, a source with knowledge of the case said.
CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago police and community leaders are struggling for solutions after back-to-back weekends in which young children were shot and killed.
“We are tapping all of our resources to ensure these killers cannot kill anyone else,” Supt. David Brown said. “We all need to be outraged by this violence.”
According to Chicago police, 63 people were shot, 16 fatally between 6 p.m. Friday and 11:59 p.m. Sunday. Three of those fatal shootings victims were minors, police said.
Excerpt From https://www.wsj.com
By Robert McMillan and Jeff Horwitz
May 9, 2019 8:00 a.m. ET
One January night this year an emergency dispatch operator in Palo Alto, Calif., fielded a call from a man who said he had shot his wife and then tied up his children inside his house, where he had several pipe bombs. After a tense period in which police officers surrounded the house, out came the owner, a senior Facebook Inc. FB +0.74% executive who said there was no shooting and that he had no idea what was going on.
The call was a hoax, but not an isolated incident.
Just over two weeks later, an Instagram executive at his home in San Francisco was also the target of a swatting attack, in which the perpetrator masquerades as a certain individual and calls up local law enforcement, claiming to have committed violent crimes at the target’s address.
The incidents show why safety concerns are rising across Silicon Valley, prompting tech companies to allocate more dollars to executive security…
