The NYPD figures show murders are up 24.7 percent, from 89 during the same period last year to 111.
Rapes jumped 13.8 percent, from 324 to 369. Robberies rose 4.5 percent, from 4,595 to 4,803.
The jumps in murder and robbery are particularly alarming to top brass and criminologists because these categories are viewed as “bellwether” crime indicators - and the Big Apple in recent years had been bucking upward national crime trends
