A fourth precinct police source tells the Yonkers Free Press that crime dropped dramatically in the precinct and city after Governor Andrew Cuomo put the city and state on “pause”.
Yonkers crime is down compared to the same two week period last year according to a Yonkers Police Department insider.
That’s a dramatic reversal considering that many Yonkers residents were fearing that shootings and stabbings were on the way up in the city of hills during the first two months of this year.
But unofficially, all Yonkers crime categories saw a dramatic dip over the last week or so.
If a Yonkers criminal is listening to the advice to stay home and distance themselves from other people, then it becomes hard to rob them.
Perhaps the best advice is to visibly cough on your money if you are about to be mugged outside of a Getty Square cash machine.
However, one wonders if vehicle thefts will go up once Yonkers Hospitals are overwhelmed with deadly virus cases and Yonkersites, just want “to get the Hell out of Dodge.”
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