Overall index crime for January 2023 compared to January 2022 was up 4.1 percent (10,067 v. 9,672). Officials said this was led by a 14.9 percent increase in felony assaults (2,056 v. 1,790). In terms of transit crime, officials said the NYPD’s subway safety strategy augmented police coverage on trains and platforms while adding visible, uniformed resources at or near the system’s many points of entry across the five boroughs. Elsewhere in the Bronx, in Longwood, as reported, fatal gunshot victim, Josue Lopez-Ortega, 15, saved seven people through organ donation. “Everyone who lives, works, and visits our great city deserves to be safe, and the members of the NYPD will tolerate nothing less.
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