The Big Apple just went 12 days without a single homicide \u2014 the longest streak in nearly a decade, the NYPD said Monday.<\/p>\n
The zero-homicide stretch ended Sunday night when a 38-year-old man was shot in the head in the Bronx.<\/p>\n
Prior to the latest slaying, New York City hasn\u2019t gone that many consecutive days without a homicide since 2015, according to police.<\/p>\n
Cops arrive at the scene of a fatal shooting in the Soundview neighborhood of the Bronx. William Miller<\/p>\n
Guns of various sizes and calibers are displayed at a news conference following a gun buyback event in the East New York section of Brooklyn on December 06, 2025. Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cRight strategy. Great execution. That\u2019s how you set record after record,\u201d NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said as she touted the latest crime figures.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you to the members of the NYPD who have sacrificed so much this year to drive down violent crime to record lows.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, murders dropped last month to the lowest level since 2018 with 16 slayings, the latest crime data shows.<\/p>\n
NYPD officers put three women in handcuffs during an arrest in the Bronx. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
In November, there were also zero murders in all of Queens and Staten Island, police said.<\/p>\n
Overall murder was also down 46.6% last month compared to November 2024, according to the crime stats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Big Apple just went 12 days without a single homicide \u2014 the longest streak in nearly a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":433352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,4219,4221,5248,27813,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,3677,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-433351","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-homicide","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-murders","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-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115684257650732319","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433351","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=433351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}