The statistics exclude rapes — of which about two per year are reported on the subway — and include instances of alleged unwanted touching, public lewdness and unlawful surveillance, and the taking of inappropriate photos and video. The surge in reports is due to authorities making a more concerted effort to empower women to report the crimes and then acting on the accusations to make arrests. In the first half of , sex crimes have been reported in the subway. During the same period last year, sex crimes were reported, an increase of 53 percent. The city is on pace to finish the year with about reported sex crimes on the subway.
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The NYPD received 1, reports of sex offenses in the transit system in , up 8. The number of incidents in were also up So far this year, however, the trend appears to be slowing: there were subway incidents reported in as of July 29, compared to during the same time period in , according to NYPD stats. In , the MTA created a website so victims can report incidents of subway sexual misconduct online, while the NYPD launched an awareness campaign in April encouraging New Yorkers to report sex crimes to the police. General sex crime numbers show an uptick similar to those on the subway: citywide, rapes are up New York State Senator Diane Savino, who represents Staten Island and introduced a bill last year that would increase penalties for subway gropers, agrees.
By Tina Moore and Aaron Feis. May 1, pm Updated May 1, pm. But among the crowds on the uptown IRT platform, there are two other groups, locked in a game of cat-and-mouse invisible to most commuters: perverts and pickpockets hunting for their next victims, and plainclothes cops hunting for the creeps.
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