NEW YORK CITY — Nearly 200 fewer New Yorkers have been shot so far this year compared to last, according to newly released NYPD crime statistics.
Nearly every major crime, including murder, fell in the first six months of 2023, police officials said Thursday.
Shootings fell citywide for the past 13 weeks running, said Acting Police Commissioner Edward Caban. And data shows there were 196 fewer people who have been shot compared to the first half of 2022.
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“That is not just a number,” Caban said. “These are hundreds of real people, hundreds of families who are spared the devastating impacts of gun violence.”
The crime numbers unveiled at an NYPD news conference fit into a citywide decline in violence since Mayor Eric Adams took office.
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Violent crime dipped in June, aside from a roughly 1 percent uptick in felony assault, the data shows.
Shooting over the recent July 4 holiday weekend also fell about 50 percent from the past two years, Caban said.
But even with the declines, major arrests during the second quarter this year were still at a 25-year-high, said Michael Lipetri, the NYPD’s chief of crime control strategies.
Crime, however, was still much higher 25 years ago in 1998 when Rudy Giuliani was mayor.
There were 20,000 more reported major crimes during the second quarter of 1998 than the same span this year, Lipetri said.
“We’re making arrests on a lot more index crimes than we were in 1998,” he said.
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