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"Crime and violence reductions are historic," NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said during a press briefing.
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Overall, major crime was down 11% in the first three months of 2025 compared to the same period a year ago, led by a drop of nearly 35% in homicides, a decline of nearly 23% in robberies as well as dip of 13.7% percent in grand larceny, the latest NYPD statistics revealed.
The number of shootings in the first three months of 2025 was the lowest since 1994, but rape numbers were up and more children were shot, according to police statistics.
Crime reduction efforts also were seen in the city’s public housing developments, where overall crime fell by 11% for the year’s first quarter, NYPD statistics show, and the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force saw a 10% decline in the number of bias-related incidents in the first quarter of 2025.
Detectives traveled to Putnam County Correctional Facility for two members of an organized retail theft group, wanted for two separate larcenies from an Old Navy store in Hanover in the summer of 2024.
New York City saw a 23% decrease in shootings and an 18% drop in subway crime for the first three months of the year compared to the same period last year, according to the
Since 2022, Rochester Mayor Malik Evans declared Rochester in a gun violence state of emergency and has renewed it every 30 days. On Thursday, city and county officials gathered to reflect on crime victims,
A Bronx man has been indicted after allegedly verbally and physically assaulting a gay Hispanic couple in Midtown earlier this month, according to the Manhattan district attorneys
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Brooklyn Paper on MSNCrime dropped in Brooklyn in March, despite spate of shootings, homicidesBrooklyn’s violent crime rate dropped in March, according to the latest NYPD data — marking the fourth consecutive month where crime was down year-over-year.
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