NYPD celebrates fewest murders, shootings, shooting victims in recorded history through October – CBS News

NYPD celebrates fewest murders, shootings, shooting victims in recorded history through October  CBS News

The NYPD reported the fewest shooting incidents, shooting victims and murders in recorded history for the first 10 months of the year. The New York City Police Department reported the fewest shooting incidents, shooting victims and murders in recorded history for the first 10 months of the year. The NYPD said the decrease in crime is in part because of an aggressive effort to go after gangs. Experts say, however, that could make it harder for Mayor Zohran Mamdani to keep a campaign promise. Year to date, there have been 536 shooting incidents, which sets a new record low. The prior record of 598 was set last year. There have been 649 shooting victims, down from the record low of 746 also set last year.

There have been 230 murders, beating the previous record of 244 set in 2017. The NYPD said it has seized more than 4,500 illegal guns citywide. "People often proclaim that the age of heroes is over, that in a world this cynical words like 'duty' and 'sacrifice' and 'courage' belong to another time. But I know that that is not true. I know that heroes are real because day after day, I have the great honor of working with 35,000 of them, and now, so do you," Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told the latest NYPD