Shootings in New York City dropped by 21% last month compared to January 2024 — reaching milestone low not seen in January for more than three decades, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Tuesday.
The drop in shootings was bolstered by a five-day streak with no shooting victims that coincided with a brutal cold snap, officials said.
“Major crime was down 16.8%, compared to January 2024 (that’s 1,700 fewer index crimes), with crime decreases in all five boroughs, as well as subways (-36%) and public housing (-14.5%),” Tisch wrote on X. “Double-digit declines in murder (-24%), robbery (-26%), grand larceny (-22%), and auto theft (-23%).
“Shooting incidents were down 21.5%, marking the LOWEST number of shootings in the month of January since CompStat started recording in the early 1990’s!” she added.
Mayor Adams is expected to mention the reduction in shootings during his budget hearings in Albany on Tuesday.
January saw 51 shooting incidents compared to 65 in January 2024, the NYPD said. There were 25 homicides compared to 33 last January.
There were drops in every crime category except for rapes, which saw a 40% jump with 149 reported — 43 more than January 2024.
The five-day stretch without a shooting victim between Jan. 19 and Jan. 23 was “the first time in 30 years, there have been 0 shooting victims in New York City for a 5-day period,” the NYPD noted last month.
But that streak ended five minutes after the NYPD posted the good news when a 34-year-old man was shot in the leg on Linden Blvd. in East New York, Brooklyn, cops said.
The victim managed to take himself to Brookdale University Hospital, where he was treated for a minor wound.
Mayor Adams last month announced that cops had seized more than 20,000 illegal guns during his administration.
The official tally — 20,137 since the start of 2022, including 377 so far this year — is updated daily on the NYPD website. More than 1,400 of the seized weapons were untraceable ghost guns.
“That’s 20,000 weapons that no longer can threaten the safety of New Yorkers and our neighborhoods, our families, and our children,” Adams said at a press conference last month with Tisch by his side. “That’s 20,000 fewer chances that a New Yorker is shot or killed.”