NYPD Expands Special Victims Unit To Address Rise In Rape Reports
The NYPD says despite overall crime being down across the city, more rapes are being reported than years past.
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The NYPD says despite overall crime being down across the city, more rapes are being reported than years past.
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Authorities say Ever Martinez Reyes was arrested in connection with the rape of a 36-year-old woman on Sept. 28.
According to detectives, a 36-year-old woman was walking along Parsons Ave. around 1:30 a.m. on Sept. 28 when she was attacked by an unidentified man.
Residents in a quiet Brooklyn neighborhood are hoping for a quick arrest, after an attempted rape happened on the street in the middle of the night.
There has been a dramatic rise in rape cases every month for the past year, and that has forced the NYPD to revamp its Special Victims Unit, adding extra personnel to help bring assailants to justice.
It happened at around 1:30 a.m. as the victim was walking from her sister's house.
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The victim was accosted at around 8:20 a.m. at Washington Irving Campus near Union Square.
The NYPD reported Friday that New York City saw overall crime fall again in October, though the Halloween terror attack on the West Side bike path drove murders slightly up compared with last year.
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Capt. Peter Rose of the 94th Precinct was speaking at a community council meeting last week when he made comments drawing a distinction between "true stranger rapes" and other kinds of rape.
At around 1 a.m., the student called a cab and got into a vehicle on 33rd Street. It's not clear if the vehicle was actually a cab or not.
The 29-year-old victim said she woke up to hear her door being opened. A man holding a silver gun walked in and raped her before stealing items from the victim and fleeing, police said.
Police on Thursday were seeking a suspect who put a knife to a woman's throat and raped her in a Washington Heights park.
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Four teenage suspects were arraigned Tuesday night, and a fifth was being held, in connection with an alleged gang rape of a Brooklyn woman last week.
Police are searching for a fifth suspect after four teenagers were taken into custody in connection with an alleged group rape of an 18-year-old woman in Brooklyn.
Police are searching for five men who they said are wanted for sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in a Brooklyn park.
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