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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Crime reduction statistics and strategies in New York City
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Commissioner Tisch presents recent crime reduction statistics and highlights the NYPD's success in reducing major crimes and gun violence across New York City.
- Major crime has decreased in precincts, subways, and housing developments
- Over 2,200 illegal guns have been taken off the streets in 2025
- Citywide shooting incidents are down 20% compared to the previous year
- Memorial Day weekend 2025 had the fewest shootings in recorded history
- May 2025 is on track to have the fewest murders and shootings for any May on record
Jessica Tisch
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Major crime in New York City continues to go down in our precincts, in our subways and in our housing developments.
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Developments.
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NYPD officers have taken more than 2,000, two thousand two hundred illegal guns off our streets in 2025 and nearly 22,000 since the Adams administration began.
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This has helped drive down citywide shooting incidents by 20% from this point last year.
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And the NYPD's work in May has been exceptional.
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We just had the safest Memorial Day weekend in terms of gun violence that New York City has ever seen with the fewest shootings in recorded history and zero shootings on that Sunday.
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The first time that has happened in the thirty two years that we have been keeping records.
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And with two full days remaining in the month, we are on track to have the fewest murders and the fewest shootings for any May on record.
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This is the result of smart strategy, thoughtful execution, precise analysis and 49,000 people all focused on one thing, public safety.