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NYPD's summer violence reduction plan and early results

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Commissioner Tisch outlines the NYPD's summer violence reduction plan, which expands on successful strategies to further reduce crime and violence in the city.

  • The plan expands citywide zones, covering 70 summer zones across 57 commands in all five boroughs
  • 1,500 uniformed officers are deployed on foot posts in precincts, public housing, and subways
  • Early results show a 30% reduction in major crime in summer zones during deployment
  • Significant decreases in various crime categories, including a 57% reduction in shootings
  • The commissioner acknowledges ongoing challenges, including recidivism and issues with discovery law
Jessica Tisch
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And that focus on crime fighting is at the heart of our summer violence reduction plan.
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This plan continues the work that has made our neighborhood subways and housing development safer through the expansion of our citywide zones.
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As we have seen over the past several months, this data driven scalpel approach works.
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Throughout our zone deployments in some of our city's most violent areas, major crime is down nearly 20% year to date.
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Now we have expanded and repositioned our deployments based on current data, crime trends, and community concerns.
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The result is 70 summer zones covering 57 different commands across all five boroughs.
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This is the largest deployment of its kind in department history.
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1,500 uniformed officers on foot posts, in precincts, public housing, and in our subways.
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And all of them focused on high priority index crimes and shootings.
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The summer is just getting underway but the early results of this plan are quite promising.
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Since May 5, major crime in our summer zones during deployment is down nearly 30% with double digit decreases in robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny, and auto theft.
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Shootings are down more than 57%.
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And major subway crime within these zones is down 29%.
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Just as I laud the NYPD's successes fighting crime, I'm equally candid about the challenges that we still face.
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Whether it is surging recidivism, faults in the discovery law or the proliferation of illegal firearms, we must deal with every issue directly and honestly.
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