The weapons aren’t blazing.
Shootings and the variety of New Yorkers who fell sufferer to gun violence have plunged to all-time lows thus far this 12 months — even because the Large Apple contended with its worst mass taking pictures in 25 years, new NYPD crime statistics present.
The Large Apple noticed 412 taking pictures incidents, with 489 victims, in the course of the first seven months of 2025, based on the information, launched by the police division this week.
Each are information that comfortably shatter the earlier lows for shootings — 426 — and taking pictures victims — 522 — respectively, set over the identical time-frame in 2017 and 2018, cops mentioned.
When the NYPD started monitoring such knowledge firstly of the CompStat period in 1993, there have been a whopping 3,114 shootings and three,451 victims of gun violence, police mentioned.
“Summer season is often the hardest take a look at for public security, however the wins that we’re celebrating immediately show that underneath Mayor Adams’ management, we’re not simply passing the take a look at, we’re resetting the curve,” mentioned NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch throughout a Monday occasion outlining the numbers.
The declines come as Mayor Eric Adams tries to salvage his re-election bid in opposition to Democratic socialist frontrunner Zohran Mamdani by specializing in public security.
Crime shot up after Adams took workplace in 2022 amid social upheaval brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
But it surely has steadily declined throughout New York Metropolis and the nation alike with COVID within the rearview mirror.
Total main crime for the primary seven months has steadily declined within the final three years, NYPD knowledge reveals.
These months throughout Adams’ first 12 months in workplace had 72,369 crimes reported.
As much as July 31 this 12 months, there was a 5% dip in comparison with that time-frame in 2021, with 68,740 of these so-called index crimes reported.
However this 12 months’s total decrease crime numbers, whereas welcome, nonetheless fall far behind the 53,089 within the first seven months of pre-pandemic 2019.
Index crimes embody: homicide, rape, theft, felony assault, housebreaking, grand larceny and grand larceny auto.
July was additionally the tenth straight month that main crime fell, with a 5.6% total drop in comparison with the identical time final 12 months, knowledge exhibits.
Shootings and victims of gun violence additionally hit the bottom ranges for any July on report within the metropolis, with 75 and 92, respectively, Tisch mentioned. The earlier July report lows for shootings and taking pictures victims have been 79 and 102, respectively, in 2017.
“This comes simply weeks after we had the most secure July 4th weekend for gun violence ever recorded,” Tisch mentioned.
The span additionally included the July 28 bloodbath by crazed gunman Shane Tamura, who killed 4 folks — together with NYPD Officer Didarul Islam — inside a Midtown skyscraper earlier than turning the gun on himself.
Most main felonies additionally confirmed dramatic drops in July in comparison with the identical month in 2024, the information exhibits.
Theft fell 7.5%, felony assault dropped 8.2% and burglaries plunged 14.2%, based on the information.
“Murders have been down by 49%, and in our subways, excluding the 2 pandemic years, it was the most secure July in recorded historical past,” Tisch mentioned.
Rape, nevertheless, continued to point out a troubling improve.
The vile, traditionally underreported crime was up 33%, with 193 rapes reported citywide in July in comparison with final 12 months, knowledge reveals.
The NYPD has pinned the rise on a state legislation handed in September 2024 that expanded the authorized definition of rape to higher mirror the complete vary of sexual assaults.
