Monday, July 29, 2024

In the midst of migrant wave, rapes soar in NYC this year, with some areas of Manhattan facing increases of up to 300%

The Big Apple has seen an alarming 11% jump in rapes this year — with some sections of the city seeing their numbers more than double.

There were 880 rapes reported citywide from Jan. 1 through July 14, compared to 796 in the same period last year, NYPD stats reveal.

“This should be a wake up call,” said Jane Manning, director of Women’s Equal Justice.“The NYPD needs to allocate more investigators to its understaffed Special Victims Unit, so that every case is investigated well and dangerous offenders are apprehended.”

Areas with the sharpest increases include:

  • Manhattan’s 10th Precinct – covering Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen South and Hudson Yards — saw a 300% increase, with eight so far this year compared to two at this point in 2023. 
  • Rapes more than doubled Times Square’s Midtown South Precinct, to 19 from nine — a 111% climb.
  • The 101st Precinct in the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens saw rapes shoot up 100% to 14 from 7.
  • The 105th Precinct in eastern Queens saw rapes increase 70% to 17 so far this year from 10 last year.

Women - especially women who don't want to be marrried - love the Democratic Party:

Sexual orientation is also strongly associated with partisanship among both men and women.

  • Among all registered voters, men tilt to the GOP (52% of men identify with or lean toward the Republican Party, 46% to the Democratic Party).
  • By a similar margin, women tilt Democratic (51% Democratic, 44% Republican, including leaners).

Marital status

Married men and women are more likely to identify with or lean toward the Republican Party than their unmarried counterparts, with 59% of married men and half of married women oriented toward the GOP.

And while majorities of both men and women voters who have never been married and do not live with a partner align with the Democratic Party, never-married women are particularly likely to do so:

  • Women who have never been married are three times as likely to associate with the Democratic Party as with the Republican Party (72% vs. 24%). 

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