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Crime statistics and reductions in major crime categories
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Commissioner Tisch presents recent crime statistics, highlighting significant reductions in major crime categories across New York City.
- Overall index crime down with over 3,600 fewer incidents reported than the previous year
- Murders at a five-year low, shootings down for the third straight year
- Major crime down in housing developments and transit system
- Double-digit declines in citywide index crime for three straight months
- Year-to-date crime down across every city borough, with significant reductions in housing and subways
Jessica Tisch
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In 2024, overall index crime was down with more than 3,600 fewer incidents reported than the previous year.
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Murders were at a five year low.
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Both shooting incidents and shooting victims were down for the third straight year citywide.
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And in Brooklyn shootings were at their lowest level since Comstep began tracking them in the early 1990s.
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Major crime was down in our housing developments and it was down in our transit system for the second straight year.
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This was certainly movement in the right direction but we knew that we could and must do more.
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There were still stubborn pockets of violence in the city and there was a sense that people still did not feel safe.
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So we wasted no time in building on and enhancing our efforts to further drive down crime and that work has led to a meaningful course correction.
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Major crime in February was down nearly 15% marking the third straight month of double digit declines in citywide index crime after 16% drop in December and a 17% drop in January.
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So far in 2025 overall crime is down more than 14% with six out of the seven index categories seeing significant declines.
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Year to date crime is down across every city borough.
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It is down 11% in housing and it is down 27% in our subways.
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We continue to make great progress against gun violence with citywide shooting incidents down another 21% from last year.
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We have seized more than 20,800 illegal firearms since Mayor Adams took office.
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And long term investigations alongside DAs from Brooklyn and Queens resulted in the removal of dozens more illegal guns from our streets and in the arrests of the violent criminals who used them.
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The result was the fewest shootings of any January in recorded history and we set a record by going five straight days without a single shooting anywhere in the city that month.
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February continued that trend and we now have the lowest number of year to date shooting incidents since record keeping began more than thirty years ago.
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On top of this year to date retail theft is down, misdemeanor assaults are down and in just two months the NYPD has already taken more than a thousand illegal guns off of our streets.
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Our roadways are also getting significantly safer and the work of our 2,900 traffic enforcement agents is saving lives.
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In 2025, citywide traffic fatalities are down thirty percent to their lowest level in four years.
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Total collisions are down by more than sixteen percent and traffic related injuries are down twenty percent.
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Every single collision category from pedestrians to bicycles to e bikes is lower this year compared to 2024.
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NYPD traffic agents are doing a remarkable job in the most densely populated city in the nation and our streets are much safer as a result of their work.
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All of this to show that New York City remains the safest big city in America.
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But one major crime category is running counter to all the others and that is rape.
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Compared to 2024, reported rapes have increased by 27%.
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And although this may seem counterintuitive, this is a clear sign that our work to seek justice for every victim of sexual and gender based violence is making a real difference.
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For years these crimes have been widely underreported and more survivors coming forward means more ability for the police to get these criminals off of our streets.
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Beginning in spring twenty twenty four, NYPD detectives began taking reports of sexual assault at the city's five borough based family justice centers where survivors were already receiving social and legal services in a safe space.
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Now they can come forward with the support of trusted advocates and providers and receive the critical resources they need to heal.
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We encourage all survivors to make their voices heard so that the police can hold these criminals accountable.
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Simply put, the overall crime reductions the women and men at the NYPD have delivered over the past three months have been extraordinary.
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If 2024 was a step in the right direction, then 2025 has so far been a leap forward.
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So how are we doing this?