Incidents of public masturbation up 51%: NYPD data

More sick people are enjoying themselves publicly and exposing themselves on the streets of the Big Apple, crime statistics show: lax laws and a broken mental health system have been blamed by nauseous development critics.

Reports of perverts being groped outdoors jumped 51 percent through June 30, to 378 complaints from 251 during the same period in 2023, according to NYPD data.

Meanwhile, cops issued 159 criminal citations through June 30 across the city to New Yorkers who removed their genitalia, sometimes to urinate, an impressive 396 percent increase from the 32 tickets written in 2023, according to data from the city

“There's too much trash I don't want to see,” Greenwich Village resident Brian Maloney told The Post.

Three weeks ago, a naked man with long hair fondled himself while sitting in a chair outside the Washington Square Diner in the pouring rain, according to footage Maloney shared with The Post.

Days later, a woman in her subway car decided to parade in front of commuters in her birthday dress, he said.

“We're exhausted by this,” Maloney said. “We're trying to help, we're begging our elected officials to help, and we're basically being ignored.”

At a July meeting of Manhattan's Community Board 1, which covers the Financial District and Tribeca, residents were enraged by the police's lack of response to their complaints about a dirt-covered serial masturbator with a tattoo of Marine Corps on the back.

Captain Joel Rosenthal, officer in charge of the first precinct, warned outraged locals that even if the police arrested him in the act, the twisted pervert would likely be on the loose before long.

“This is a desk appearance ticket and a non-bailable offense, so he'll be out in two hours,” he said.

The push against incarceration, along with the city's inability to effectively hospitalize and treat the seriously mentally ill, has fueled the rise of disruptive deviance, according to Carolyn D. Gorman, a mental illness policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute .

“If we don't enforce the laws so people aren't in jail or prison, and they aren't getting psychiatric treatment because the mental health system prioritizes the mentally ill … those people are on the streets,” he said.

Additional reporting by Tina Moore.