Angry Cabbies offer a money reward for information about a “tap and snatch” team that has scammed 22 drivers in 22 districts in the last eight weeks in a crime track that the spokesperson of the Union called “unhearded”.
Fernando Mateo van New York State Federation or Taxi Drivers Said that the NYPD Cabbies should have been talking about the Spree – which is often dependent on crooks that seize the director’s phone and wires cash through apps such as Zelle or Venmo.
Other times they will ask to see the driver’s phone so that they can type an address or change their destination – and then they walk according to the NYPD.
“Mobile phones are nowadays the equivalent of cash, and criminals know this,” said Mateo. “So they no longer put a gun against your head and say,” Give me your money “. Instead, they say,” Give me your phone. “
“Then they do Zelle, Venmo or do what they have to do to take all the money you have,” he said. “It’s no longer $ 100 that you might have in your pocket, now they are thousands of dollars.”
An unhappy victim lost $ 7,000 to the crew, whose members greet a cabin or just jump in the back seat when the driver slows down, he said.
“Most of them are armed with a knife, or they pretend to be armed,” said Mateo. “If the driver is forward and if someone here puts something in his neck, he doesn’t know if it’s a toothpick or a knife.”
Mateo also pilered the NYPD because he had never told Cabbies about the crimes.
“This is a pattern that should have been advised at the beginning of January, after the third or fourth robbery of mobile phones,” he said.
“But if the NYPD does not tell us, there is no way for us to communicate with our 30,000 drivers who are there every day and are robbed every day,” he continued. “We demand … the NYPD lets us know when patterns arise so that we can stop [them] By moving forward. “
The department investigates the crimes, he said. And the trade union offers $ 2,000 to anyone who can tell civil servants behind the crimes.
“They are very smart … Because they have hit 22 different districts 22 times,” said Mateo. “They don’t do it in the same neighborhood.”
“There are 200,000 taxi drivers in New York City, so they have 200,000 possible goals that they can aim at any time.”
Mateo also struck bail reform and said that the authorities “should become more difficult, stronger, more demanding about crimes and protect the victims that suffer.”
“It doesn’t matter if he is black, Chinese, Spanish, white, what is,” he said. “If you commit a crime, you must be locked up.”
