New York City had its safest year ever for gun violence in 2025, which had the fewest shootings and shooting victims in the city\u2019s recorded history, the NYPD announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The city recorded 688 shooting incidents last year, 10% below the previous record in 2018 and a 24% decline from 2024, officials said. The number of people shot also reached a historic low: 856, or nearly 5% less than the 2018 record and 247 fewer people than in 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cEach of those percentage points adds up to dining-room tables without an empty seat, lives free from the dark cloud of grief, children that grow up with a parent at home,\u201d Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at a press conference detailing the numbers.<\/p>\n
The city had 35 shootings in December, the fewest ever recorded in a single month, according to the NYPD. Meanwhile, homicides decreased 20% between 2024 and 2025, to 305, and robberies dropped nearly 10%, with 1,600 fewer incidents.<\/p>\n
Officials said the transit system also had significant improvements, as major crime on the subways fell 4% and transit robberies reached record lows. The Mamdani administration called 2025 the \u201csafest year on the subways since 2009,\u201d excluding the pandemic years when ridership nosedived.<\/p>\n
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch credited the drop to the department’s “deliberate, data-driven strategy” over the last year. Although national crime numbers are also down, Gothamist reported last week that New York City has had significantly fewer total shootings<\/a> than American cities a fraction of its size.<\/p>\n \u201cWe see the headlines and we hear the pundits talk about crime being out of control in our city,” Tisch said during the press conference. “These numbers tell a very different story.\u201d<\/p>\n Tisch described the NYPD’s “precision policing strategy,\u201d which deployed thousands of officers to high-crime areas and nightly foot posts across precincts, public housing and the subway system. She also touted police efforts to remove thousands of guns off the streets.<\/p>\n The commissioner said her approach to violent crime and quality-of-life policing would continue under Mamdani.<\/p>\n \u201cAt this time, there is no change planned to the crime-fighting strategy that has delivered historic results,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Still, the end-of-year statistics highlighted some ongoing challenges with public safety.<\/p>\n Felony assaults ticked up slightly over 2024, driven largely by domestic violence and assaults on public employees, officials said.<\/p>\n And youth violence continued to rise as a share of overall violent crime, with both victims and perpetrators under 18 reaching their highest percentages since tracking began in 2018. Tisch and Mamdani said they would take a “whole-of-government approach” to tackle youth crime.<\/p>\n