Overall crime is up 2.4 percent from the same time last year There is a 36 percent increase in murders and 35 percent hike in auto thefts On Monday, a five-year-old girl was grazed by a bullet in a random shooting A tourist from Kansas City was also recently grazed by a bullet in Times Square Meanwhile, a retired crime reporter was beaten on Easter Sunday in Harlem Over the summer, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a $1 billion cut to the NYPD This week, de Blasio claimed that New Yorkers were not living in fear amid the current surge in crime, which shows no signs of dwindling soon