{"id":122349,"date":"2025-08-06T01:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/122349\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T01:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:26:13","slug":"nyc-shootings-have-plunged-to-record-lows-this-year-nypd-commish-jessica-tisch-says-we-are-resetting-the-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/122349\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC shootings have plunged to record lows this year, NYPD Commish Jessica Tisch says ‘we are resetting the curve’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shootings and the number of New Yorkers who fell victim to gun violence have plunged to all-time lows so far this year\u00a0\u2014 even as the Big Apple contended with\u00a0its\u00a0deadliest\u00a0mass shooting in 25 years<\/a>, new NYPD crime statistics show.<\/p>\n

The Big Apple saw 412 shooting incidents, with 489 victims, during the first seven months of 2025, according to the data, released by the police department this week.<\/p>\n

Both are records that comfortably shatter the previous lows for shootings \u2014 426 \u2014 and shooting victims \u2014 522 \u2014 respectively, set over the same time frame in 2017 and 2018, cops said.<\/p>\n

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch this week celebrated major drops in crime. Stephen Yang<\/p>\n

When the NYPD began tracking such data at the beginning of the CompStat era in 1993, there were a whopping 3,114 shootings and 3,451 victims of gun violence, police said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSummer is usually the toughest test for public safety, but the wins that we are celebrating today prove that under\u00a0Mayor [Eric] Adams\u2019\u00a0leadership, we are not just passing the test, we are resetting the curve,\u201d said NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch during a Monday event outlining the numbers.<\/p>\n

The declines come as Adams tries to salvage his re-election bid against Democratic socialist frontrunner Zohran Mamdani by\u00a0focusing on public safety<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 and bashing his rival\u2019s\u00a0policing proposals<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0past disparagement<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0the NYPD.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Crimeshot up after Adams took office in 2022 amid social upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\u00a0And it\u00a0wasn\u2019t alone \u2013 major cities across the US saw violent offenses such as murder surge during the pandemic and reverse 30-year declines.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

But\u00a0crime \u2013 including homicides \u2013\u00a0has steadily declined across New York City and the nation alike with COVID in the rearview mirror,\u00a0although murders are still above pre-2020 rates in more than 60% of cities, the Council on Criminal Justice\u00a0recently found<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The national trend toward lower murder rates doesn\u2019t take away from the Big Apple\u2019s successes, said Jeff Asher, a crime data analyst.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s obviously fantastic, it\u2019s very positive, it\u2019s definitely a national trend that we are seeing across the country,\u201d said Asher,\u00a0co-founder of the data analytics firm AH Datalytics.<\/p>\n

Overall major crime\u00a0in New York City\u00a0for the first seven months has steadily declined in\u00a0each of the\u00a0last three years, NYPD data reveals.<\/p>\n

Those months during Adams\u2019 first year in office had 72,369 crimes reported.\u00a0Compared to that time frame, this year so far saw a 5% dip\u00a0with 68,740 of those so-called index crimes reported.<\/p>\n

Mayor Eric Adams has tried to highlight his record on public safety to boost his re-election campaign. Stephen Yang<\/p>\n

But this year\u2019s overall lower crime numbers, while welcome, still fall far behind the 53,089 in the first seven months of pre-pandemic 2019.<\/p>\n

Index crimes include: murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny and grand larceny auto.<\/p>\n

Richard Aborn, president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York, credited four very specific reasons for the improving crime statistics.<\/p>\n

The NYPD\u2019s \u201crelentless focus\u201d on seizing illegal guns is bearing fruit, as is the department\u2019s precision policing strategy that focuses cops on ever-smaller areas where crime is concentrated, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The city investing millions of dollars into crime prevention organizations and district attorneys speeding up prosecutions is paying off as well, Aborn said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are all these factors coming together which are beginning to pay off in a big way,\u201d Aborn said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NYPD officials likewise credited illegal gun seizures and precision policing \u2013 and argued a record number of gang takedowns is also driving down violence.<\/p>\n

Shootings hit record lows for the first seven months of the year. Robert Mecea<\/p>\n

\u201cViolent crime always spikes in the summer, but we haven\u2019t seen that,\u201d said Christopher Herrmann, a former NYPD crime analyst supervisor and current John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor.<\/p>\n

July was also the 10th straight month that major crime fell, with a 5.6% overall drop compared to the same time last year, data shows.<\/p>\n

Shootings and victims of gun violence also hit the lowest levels for any July on record in the city, with 75 and 92, respectively, Tisch said. The previous July record lows for shootings and shooting victims were 79 and 102, respectively, in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis comes just weeks after we had the safest July 4th weekend for gun violence ever recorded,\u201d Tisch said.<\/p>\n

The span also included the\u00a0July 28 massacre by crazed gunman Shane Tamura<\/a>, who killed four people \u2014 including NYPD Officer Didarul Islam \u2014 inside a Midtown skyscraper before turning the gun on himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile this incident will forever be a stain on our city, it happened against the backdrop of a larger, more hopeful picture \u2014 one where the brave men and women of the NYPD continue to drive down crime,\u201d Adams said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Most major felonies also showed dramatic drops in July compared to the same month in 2024, the data shows.<\/p>\n

Robbery fell 7.5%, felony assault dropped 8.2% and burglaries plunged 14.2%, according to the data.<\/p>\n

\u201cMurders were down by 49%, and in our subways, excluding the two pandemic years, it was the safest July in recorded history,\u201d Tisch said.<\/p>\n

The span included the horrific July 28 mass shooting in Midtown. Robert Miller<\/p>\n

Rape, however, continued to show a\u00a0troubling increase<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The vile, historically underreported crime was up 33%, with 193 rapes reported citywide in July compared to last year, data reveals.<\/p>\n

The NYPD has pinned the increase on a state law passed in September 2024 that expanded the legal definition of rape to better reflect the full range of sexual assaults.<\/p>\n

The crime data\u2019s release came on the eve of National Night Out, an anti-crime event Tuesday that brings police and communities together in cities and towns across the US.<\/p>\n

Adams was set to attend National Night Out events in all five boroughs, while Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa was slated for a trio of events across Queens.<\/p>\n

Mamdani, who recently tried to put his \u201cdefund the police\u201d past behind him, was scheduled to attend an event with state Attorney General Letitia James at a Brooklyn NYPD precinct.<\/p>\n

The socialist has a lot of mistrust to overcome within the NYPD if he\u2019s elected mayor, said Herrmann, the John Jay professor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s going to affect morale,\u201d he said. \u201cThe pendulum is going to swing with a supportive mayor and semi-supportive city council to a non-supportive mayor and semi-supportive council with a new police commissioner.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Additional reporting by Joe Marino<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shootings and the number of New Yorkers who fell victim to gun violence have plunged to all-time lows…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,4219,5289,12939,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,3677,15777,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-122349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-eric-adams","11":"tag-jessica-tisch","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nypd","20":"tag-shootings","21":"tag-statistics","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-us-news","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114979221564449709","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}