New York, NY – Unhappy with a falling number of arrests and a slight increase in stolen autos, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has ordered a renewed focus on the crime, sources said.
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Chief of Department James Hall met at Police Headquarters with supervisors of auto crime units to try to figure out new ways to crack down, sources said.
“The numbers aren’t what the commissioner wants them to be,” said a police supervisor with knowledge of the meeting. “Hall now has to do something about it.”
Inspector Edward Mullen, an NYPD spokesman, said the meeting was designed “to build on the 14% decrease in auto theft over the last two years.”
Police sources said there is concern about a 27% drop in grand larceny auto arrests this year.
The number of stolen cars is up a tiny .6% – 2,869 thefts this year, compared with 2,852 in the corresponding period last year.
Cops plan to squeeze informants and prisoners for tips and inspect body shops around the city. “People would be shocked at the body shops that look legitimate but are really chop shops,” the supervisor said.
Sources said fewer than 10% of stolen auto cases end in an arrest because thieves tend to belong to organized rings that strip cars into parts almost before owners notice they’ve been swiped.
Good. In Williamsburg almost every Saturday night a few cars are broken into.
So cops are under pressure to do their job should be the headline?
Finally they see what’s going on here in NY I had a break in in my car the police came and told me that they can’t do anything so I should not make a report (so the crime rate won’t go up) and my freind had the same thing. So I’m very happy that they see what’s going on here
A car was stolen on pesach in montreal and the police found it in a countainer at the port of montreal on the way to south africa.
gr8 job by montreal police.
Of course crime is going up in NYC. The cops are too busy going after “criminals” who put their feet up on empty subway cars.
Always insist on making a Police report, never accept no for an answer, the more reports that go in, the quicker this problem will come to the forefront and be dealt with.
a nurse from Maimonides Hospital her car was stolen on 48 bet 9-10 ave last week she waited for more then 2 hours for the police to arrive so she went to the 66 pct they told her to go back to 48 st & 10 ave and wait to make a police report well after waiting for 1 more hour they finely came to make a police report!! i think they thought that she will give up and not make a report
If the car thieves would only park illegaly then NYPD would catch them as there are meter maids every block around BP and Flatbush