{"id":469766,"date":"2025-12-25T00:36:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/469766\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T00:36:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:36:51","slug":"nyc-sees-1000-fewer-shooting-victims-in-2025-than-4-years-ago-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/469766\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC sees 1,000 fewer shooting victims in 2025 than 4 years ago: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"

As murders and shootings in New York City continue to drop to record low<\/a>s, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Wednesday announced a new milestone: 1,000 fewer people shot this year than in 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cIncredible stat! As of today, NYC has recorded 1,000 FEWER shooting victims than in 2021. And 235 fewer than last year,\u201d Tisch posted on social media.<\/a> \u201cMerry Christmas to the men and women of the NYPD who have delivered such an unprecedented reduction in violent crime this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

The number of shooting victims so far this year has dropped by 22% so far this year compared to last, with 841 victims through Sunday compared to 1,077 by the same point last year.<\/p>\n

Murders are down by 21%, with 297 slayings through Sunday compared with 375 during the same time frame in 2024.<\/p>\n

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\"NYPDNYPD officers mark bullet shell casings on the pavement with orange cones as they investigate a police-involved shooting on E. 167th St. and Walton Ave. on Feb. 16, 2021. (Jeff Bachner for New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Still, the city has seen increases in some categories of major crime, including a 15% jump in reported rapes, with 1,999 cases compared with 1,728 by this time last year.<\/p>\n

Police officials have pointed to legislative changes made a year ago that broadened the legal definition of rape in New York State<\/a>, which now includes more forms of sexual assault.<\/p>\n

Tisch\u2019s comparison to 2021 calls back to the first year of the Adams administration \u2014 a year when the city was still reeling from a sharp spike in crime after the 2020 COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n

\"AA gun is pictured on Bedford Ave., just south of Eastern Pkwy, after a mass shooting at the Taste of the City Lounge on Franklin Ave. in Crown Heights, Brooklyn on Aug. 17, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Shootings doubled in 2020 compared with the prior year and killings rose by almost 50%, with those numbers creeping higher still the following year \u2014 including 1,828 shooting victims through Dec. 19, 2021, and 464 homicides.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s lows are more in line with the city\u2019s prepandemic crime statistics. In 2019, the city saw 923 shooting victims as well as 319 homicides.<\/p>\n

Tisch often touts<\/a> the NYPD\u2019s precision-policing model, in which the department sends teams of cops to high-crime areas to tamp down the violence, and the Brooklyn district attorney\u2019s office credits its myriad gang takedowns for reducing crime in that borough by taking would-be shooters off the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As murders and shootings in New York City continue to drop to record lows, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":469767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-469766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-nyc-crime","23":"tag-sub-county-region","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115777415219260751","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469766","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=469766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}