Thomas Tracy and John Annese
New York Daily News
NEW YORK — As murders and shootings in New York City proceed to drop to report lows, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Wednesday introduced a brand new milestone: 1,000 fewer individuals shot this 12 months than in 2021.
“Incredible stat! As of today, NYC has recorded 1,000 FEWER shooting victims than in 2021. And 235 fewer than last year,” Tisch posted on social media. “Merry Christmas to the men and women of the NYPD who have delivered such an unprecedented reduction in violent crime this year.”
The variety of taking pictures victims to this point this 12 months has dropped by 22% to this point this 12 months in comparison with final, with 841 victims by Sunday in comparison with 1,077 by the identical level final 12 months.
Murders are down by 21%, with 297 slayings by Sunday in contrast with 375 throughout the identical time-frame in 2024.
Still, town has seen will increase in some classes of main crime, together with a 15% soar in reported rapes, with 1,999 circumstances in contrast with 1,728 by this time final 12 months.
Police officers have pointed to legislative modifications made a 12 months in the past that broadened the authorized definition of rape in New York State, which now contains extra types of sexual assault.
Tisch’s comparability to 2021 calls again to the primary 12 months of the Adams administration — a 12 months when town was nonetheless reeling from a pointy spike in crime after the 2020 COVID pandemic.
Shootings doubled in 2020 in contrast with the prior 12 months and killings rose by nearly 50%, with these numbers creeping increased nonetheless the next 12 months — together with 1,828 taking pictures victims by Dec. 19, 2021, and 464 homicides.
This 12 months’s lows are extra according to town’s prepandemic crime statistics. In 2019, town noticed 923 taking pictures victims in addition to 319 homicides.
Tisch typically touts the NYPD’s precision-policing mannequin, by which the division sends groups of cops to high-crime areas to tamp down the violence, and the Brooklyn district lawyer’s workplace credit its myriad gang takedowns for lowering crime in that borough by taking would-be shooters off the streets.
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