Shameless gunmen are shooting daylight outside the Big Apple.
Following a shocking execution at Park Slope and a shooting spree in Times Square last Saturday afternoon, The Post requested crime data to see if the perpetrators were bolted in broad daylight.
Sadly it appears.
As of April 25, the NYPD recorded 374 shootings this year – and 119, or 32 percent, occurred between 7 am and 6 pm, compared to 213 shootings during the same period last year – 63, or 30 percent, in broad daylight. I was getting
The 2 percent increase in the percentage of daylight-to-overall firing was not as worrying for the police union as the increased frequency of daytime gunfire: an increase of 89 percent from last year’s 63 shootings to 119 this year. Is represented by
Pat Benech, president of the Police Benevolent Association, told The Post, “The increase in shameless, broad daylight shootings just confirms what we already knew: violent criminals have no fear anymore.”
“They know that the police have fewer, fewer staff and hobbies than pro-criminal politicians and a broken justice system,” he said. “They know that if we arrest them in the morning, they’ll be back in time for dinner. If the people of New York don’t want a city where criminals control both night and day, they should be elected officials. Needs to be motivated to take action.
Amidst recent daylight bloodshed:
Shortly before 5 pm on May 8, 31-year-old CD peddler Farrakhan Muhammad allegedly opened fire in a bustling Times Square. The alleged triggerman was targeting his brother after a dispute, but hit a 23-year-old woman in the right thigh, a 43-year-old woman in the left leg and a 4-year-old girl in the left leg, police said. The suspect was caught in Florida on Wednesday.
On April 21, 38-year-old Latisha Bell allegedly shot her ex-girlfriend, 51-year-old Nickel Thomas, in Park Slope, in the back of the head in a chilling murder video captured. The pills were fired at St. Mark’s Place and Fourth Avenue just before 1 p.m. Police said Bell later surrendered to police at the 78th Precinct Station House in Brooklyn and confessed.
Police said a 20-year-old man was shot and killed while sitting behind the wheel of a parked SUV on April 26 on the Upper East Side just before 2:30 p.m. Police said an unknown gunman drove up to the Honda HRV on East 95th Street and shot in the stomach of Chris Delinois of Brooklyn. The NYPD released a shocking video of the ruthless murder.
On April 29, a 17-year-old student was shot dead outside a Brooklyn charter school, police said. Devonte Lewis had a fatal injury to her stomach and arm around 2:45 pm in front of the Urban Dove School on East 21 Street in Midwood. The NYPD is searching for two gunmen who fled from the scene.
“I haven’t seen daylight shootings in a long, long time,” said Joseph Giakolon, retired NYPD Sergeant and Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “It seems that the shooters have no fear of the police nor are they being recognized in broad daylight. This behavior is a precursor to worse things to come, especially with hot weather and relaxed covid restrictions.
“It is a sign of a city in the fall.”
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