NYC shootings have plunged to record lows this year, NYPD Commish Jessica Tisch says ‘we are resetting the curve'
Shootings and the number of New Yorkers who fell victim to gun violence have plunged to all-time lows so far this year — even as the Big Apple contended with its worst mass shooting in 25 years, new NYPD crime statistics show.
The Big Apple saw 412 shooting incidents, with 489 victims, during the first seven months of 2025, according to the data, released by the police department this week.
Both are records that comfortably shatter the previous lows for shootings — 426 — and shooting victims — 522 — respectively, set over the same time frame in 2017 and 2018, cops said.
When the NYPD began tracking such data at the beginning of the CompStat era in 1993, there were a whopping 3,114 shootings and 3,451 victims of gun violence, police said.
'Summer is usually the toughest test for public safety, but the wins that we are celebrating today prove that under Mayor Adams' leadership, we are not just passing the test, we are resetting the curve,' said NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch during a Monday event outlining the numbers.
4 NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch this week celebrated major drops in crime.
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4 Mayor Eric Adams has tried to highlight his record on public safety to boost his re-election campaign.
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The declines come as Mayor Eric Adams tries to salvage his re-election bid against Democratic socialist frontrunner Zohran Mamdani by focusing on public safety.
Crime shot up after Adams took office in 2022 amid social upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
But it has steadily declined across New York City and the nation alike with COVID in the rearview mirror.
Overall major crime for the first seven months has steadily declined in the last three years, NYPD data reveals.
Those months during Adams' first year in office had 72,369 crimes reported.
Up to July 31 this year, there was a 5% dip compared to that time frame in 2021, with 68,740 of those so-called index crimes reported.
But this year's overall lower crime numbers, while welcome, still fall far behind the 53,089 in the first seven months of pre-pandemic 2019.
Index crimes include: murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny and grand larceny auto.
July was also the 10th straight month that major crime fell, with a 5.6% overall drop compared to the same time last year, data shows.
Shootings and victims of gun violence also hit the lowest levels for any July on record in the city, with 75 and 92, respectively, Tisch said. The previous July record lows for shootings and shooting victims were 79 and 102, respectively, in 2017.
'This comes just weeks after we had the safest July 4th weekend for gun violence ever recorded,' Tisch said.
4 Shootings hit record lows for the first seven months of the year.
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4 The span included the horrific July 28 mass shooting in Midtown.
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The span also included the July 28 massacre by crazed gunman Shane Tamura, who killed four people — including NYPD Officer Didarul Islam — inside a Midtown skyscraper before turning the gun on himself.
Most major felonies also showed dramatic drops in July compared to the same month in 2024, the data shows.
Robbery fell 7.5%, felony assault dropped 8.2% and burglaries plunged 14.2%, according to the data.
'Murders were down by 49%, and in our subways, excluding the two pandemic years, it was the safest July in recorded history,' Tisch said.
Rape, however, continued to show a troubling increase.
The vile, historically underreported crime was up 33%, with 193 rapes reported citywide in July compared to last year, data reveals.
The NYPD has pinned the increase on a state law passed in September 2024 that expanded the legal definition of rape to better reflect the full range of sexual assaults.
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