More than 3,200 migrants housed in Big Apple taxpayer-funded shelters were busted — including for violent crimes such as assaults — over a nearly two-year span, police data obtained by The Post on Friday reveals.
The new NYPD numbers provide the first data-driven and most detailed look to date at how the protracted migrant crisis – which saw more than 200,000 asylum seekers flow into the city – affected crime in New York City.
A troublesome cadre of 3,219 migrants living in 48 city shelters across the city were arrested a total of 4,884 times between Jan. 1, 2023, and Oct. 31, 2024, the data shows.
Their alleged crimes included 1,285 petit larcenies, or minor thefts, 544 assaults and 497 cases for dangerous drugs – the top three on a long list of offenses that also included robberies and sex crimes, according to the data…