Author name: Sam Antar

NYC Violent Major Felonies Between 2019, the year preceding the COVID pandemic and the enactment of New York State’s criminal justice reform laws (bail and discovery reform), and 2023, New York City saw a 29% increase in overall violent major felony crimes. Murder rates climbed by 22.6%, robberies by 26.5%, and felony assaults by 34.7%. […]

Assessing the Assault Risk for Officers Following the tragic murder of NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller, it is important to note that major felony assaults on police and peace officers have increased by 13.3%, in contrast to a 3.0% rise in overall assaults year-to-date (as of 3/24/2024). Police and peace officers in NYC are 19.4 times

Summary Underreporting Violent Crime in New York City: Deviations from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) definitions have led to a significant underreporting of violent crime statistics in New York City (NYC). This has caused a persistent underrepresentation of violent crimes, with major felonies being reported at much lower rates than they actually occur. Political

Recently, the New York City Council overwhelmingly voted (42-9) to overturn Mayor Eric Adams’ veto of two bills: Intro 586-A, a bill that requires the NYC Police Department (NYPD) to document all investigative encounters, and Intro 549-A, a bill to ban solitary confinement in city jails. Supporters of both bills leveled charges of institutionalized racism

Misused Subway Crime Metrics A long chorus of politicians, government officials, and mass transit advocates have consistently misused baseline metrics to measure subway crime in New York City (NYC) to give riders a false sense of security. For example, New York City Police Department Transit Chief Michael Kemper, appeared on PIX11 morning news last week

While NYC Council Member Christopher Marte (District 1) galivants around town attending parties and advocating on behalf of violent criminals, his constituents in Chinatown continue to suffer as major felonies increased 25% last week, 15.6% year-to-date, 68.7% over the level it was two-years ago, and 26.7% over the level it was 13-years ago. If the

NYC Over the last week, NYC Mayor Eric Adams, Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (A/K/A AOC), Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Congressman Jerry Nadler, and their respective political allies have been cherry-picking or even making up numbers to counter criticism about the level of crime and lawlessness in NYC. Below is a statistical analysis detailing how crime

Three days ago, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine and twenty-eight other elected officials published an open letter to Congressman Jim Jordan, Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, which distorted the facts about crime in Manhattan since Alvin Bragg took office as Manhattan District Attorney. Rather than cherry-pick numbers as these clowns love to do, I